Minneola Tangelo
Citrus x 'Minneola'
Delightful tangerine-grapefruit hybrid produces juicy, thick skinned orange-red fruit with a rich tangerine flavor. Winter ripening fruit has few seeds. Great in containers, indoors or out. Evergreen.
| Botanical Pronunciation: | SIT-rus HIB-rid |
| Key feature: | Edible |
| Plant type: | Citrus |
| Garden styles: | Mediterranean, Tropical |
| Deciduous/evergreen: | Evergreen |
| Cold hardiness zones: | 9 - 10 |
| Light needs: | Partial to full sun |
| Water Needs: | Needs regular watering - weekly, or more often in extreme heat. |
| Average landscape size: | Moderate growing, round headed form to 12 ft. tall and wide. |
| Growth rate: | Moderate |
| Growth habit: | Round |
| Special features: | Attracts Birds, Edible, Year-round Interest |
| Landscape uses: | Container, Espalier, Houseplant, Specimen |
| Flower color: | White |
| Blooms: | Early spring |
| Foliage color: | Green |
| Item no.: | 2675 |
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Care Information
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Watering can be reduced after establishment. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring. Pruning time: winter.
Design Ideas
With its handsome, deep-green foliage and shrubby form, this Citrus is a good choice for containers. Makesa fine small scale shade tree or an accent with high degree of fragrance and fruit color. Grow in a citrus orchard or insert into existing landscape. Great long range focal point or position to screen off undesirable land uses.
Companion Plants
PatriotTM Compact Lantana (Lantana camara 'Rainbow'), with its yellow-orange-fuchsia flower clusters, intensifies the orange-red of this Citrus' fruit. Brighten up the evergreen with the contrasting texture and ivory blooms of Ivory Tower Yucca (Yucca filamentosa 'Ivory Tower') and add a low planting of Dwarf Myrtle (Myrtus communis 'Compacta'), a compact shrub with creamy white flowers.
History
Tangelos are hybrids of grapefruit, 'C. paradisi, and the mandarin tangerine, C. reticulata. Minneola is specifically the offspring of 'Dancy' mandarin and the Florida grapefruit, 'Duncan'. This is the most commercially important tangelo in California agriculture although they are also grown in Florida.
Lore
Citrus was first brought to European cultivation in Spain by Arab traders who found them in Asia.
Delightful tangerine-grapefruit hybrid produces juicy, thick skinned orange-red fruit with a rich tangerine flavor. Winter ripening fruit has few seeds. Great in containers, indoors or out. Evergreen.
Care Information
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Watering can be reduced after establishment. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring. Pruning time: winter.
Design Ideas
With its handsome, deep-green foliage and shrubby form, this Citrus is a good choice for containers. Makesa fine small scale shade tree or an accent with high degree of fragrance and fruit color. Grow in a citrus orchard or insert into existing landscape. Great long range focal point or position to screen off undesirable land uses.
Companion Plants
PatriotTM Compact Lantana (Lantana camara 'Rainbow'), with its yellow-orange-fuchsia flower clusters, intensifies the orange-red of this Citrus' fruit. Brighten up the evergreen with the contrasting texture and ivory blooms of Ivory Tower Yucca (Yucca filamentosa 'Ivory Tower') and add a low planting of Dwarf Myrtle (Myrtus communis 'Compacta'), a compact shrub with creamy white flowers.
History
Tangelos are hybrids of grapefruit, 'C. paradisi, and the mandarin tangerine, C. reticulata. Minneola is specifically the offspring of 'Dancy' mandarin and the Florida grapefruit, 'Duncan'. This is the most commercially important tangelo in California agriculture although they are also grown in Florida.
Lore
Citrus was first brought to European cultivation in Spain by Arab traders who found them in Asia.
| Botanical Pronunciation: | SIT-rus HIB-rid |
| Key feature: | Edible |
| Plant type: | Citrus |
| Garden styles: | Mediterranean, Tropical |
| Deciduous/evergreen: | Evergreen |
| Cold hardiness zones: | 9 - 10 |
| Light needs: | Partial to full sun |
| Water Needs: | Needs regular watering - weekly, or more often in extreme heat. |
| Average landscape size: | Moderate growing, round headed form to 12 ft. tall and wide. |
| Growth rate: | Moderate |
| Growth habit: | Round |
| Special features: | Attracts Birds, Edible, Year-round Interest |
| Landscape uses: | Container, Espalier, Houseplant, Specimen |
| Flower color: | White |
| Blooms: | Early spring |
| Foliage color: | Green |
| Item no.: | 2675 |
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