Famiglia: Clementini – Citrus Clementina
\nNome botanico in latino: C. clementina
\nDisponibile mezzo fusto o cespuglio
\nVaso di diametro 20 o 22 cm<\/p>\n
Of uncertain origin but probably a hybrid between the Mediterranean mandarin and bitter orange. According to some botanists it could be mandarin x sweet orange hybrid, which is why is also called mandarin orange.
\nIt was named clementine in honour of Fr. Clemente Rodier of the farming mission of the Holy Ghost Fathers, who discovered it in 1898 and planted it in the garden of an orphanage in Misserghin near Orano, in Algeria.
\nThe tree is vigorous and assurgent with abundant, dense foliage. The leaves are dark green, lanceolate and broader than those of the common mandarin.
\nThe fairly small white flowers grow singly or in clusters. The fruit is quite small, spherical and flattened at the ends. The rind is bright orange, fairly thin and separates easily from the juicy, sweet, orange flesh, with few or no seeds.
\nThe clementine is an early ripener (October-November) and more cold-hardy than the mandarin. Fruit bearing may be irregular, affected both by temperature variations during fruit-setting and by partial self-sterility. The latter problem may be avoided by cross-pollination with other citrus species, also by intercropping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":17192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[1284],"product_tag":[1542,1415],"class_list":["post-11321","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-clementines-citrus-clementina","product_tag-c-clementina-en","product_tag-clementini-citrus-clementina-en","first","outofstock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-variable"],"yoast_head":"\n