Shamouti orange
Also known as: Jaffa
The Jaffa orange: seedless, easy-peel, thick-rinded and aromatic, the historic export orange of the Eastern Mediterranean.
Across the consideration criteria
How it grows
- Cold hardiness
- 26°F
- Ripening
- Late-season
- Vigor
- Moderate-Vigorous
- Disease tolerance
- Moderate
- Drainage need
- Well
- Soil pH
- 6–7.5
- Graft requirement
- Graft Required
- US availability
- Available
Considerations
Canopy killed at about 26°F.
Needs high heat to colour and sweeten.
Late-season fruit (Jan-Mar).
moderate-vigorous
Prefers a pH band of 6–7.5.
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