Temple tangor
A richly spiced orange-mandarin tangor with intense flavor; seedy and a touch tender, but a classic fresh-eating specialty and a common Minneola pollinizer.
Across the consideration criteria
How it grows
- Cold hardiness
- 27°F
- Ripening
- Late-season
- Vigor
- Low (Satsuma Is The Least-Vigorous Major Mandarin; Wood Matures Early, Aiding Cold Hardiness)
- Disease tolerance
- Moderate
- Drainage need
- Well
- Soil pH
- 6–7.5
- Graft requirement
- Graft Required
- US availability
- Available
Considerations
Canopy killed at about 27°F.
Needs high heat to colour and sweeten.
Late-season fruit (Jan-Mar).
low (satsuma is the least-vigorous major mandarin; wood matures early, aiding cold hardiness)
Prefers a pH band of 6–7.5.
These are intrinsic to the citrus. On a real property, Folia scores each against your site; here they're shown on their own.
Grows alike
similar to growTango mandarin
ripens in the same window · wants the same heat to ripen
W. Murcott Afourer mandarin
ripens in the same window · wants the same heat to ripen
Kinnow mandarin
ripens in the same window · wants the same heat to ripen
Honey (Murcott) mandarin
ripens in the same window · wants the same heat to ripen
Ortanique tangor
ripens in the same window · wants the same heat to ripen
Gold Nugget mandarin
ripens in the same window · wants the same heat to ripen
Climate-adapted alternatives
more resilient picksOrtanique tangor
similar cold hardiness · similar heat requirement
Tango mandarin
similar cold hardiness · similar heat requirement
W. Murcott Afourer mandarin
similar cold hardiness · similar heat requirement
Gold Nugget mandarin
similar cold hardiness · similar heat requirement
Shasta Gold mandarin
similar cold hardiness · similar heat requirement
Yosemite Gold mandarin
similar cold hardiness · similar heat requirement
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