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<span style="font-weight: bold">Availability</span>
Our Sweet Ortanique Oranges are available February only.
"Make it Deluxe" option not available to Arizona, California, Louisiana and Texas; also some portions of Oklahoma, New Mexico and Nevada.
<span style="font-weight: bold">History</span>
The Sweet Ortanique Orange is a spontaneous hybrid of mandarin and sweet orange. In 1920 C. P. Jackson, of Mandeville, Jamaica, purchased some seedlings at an agricultural show. The seedlings had been grown by a man who found the unusual fruit at the <span style="font-weight: bold">Christiana market.</span> Jackson planted 130 seeds and subsequently selected the best seedlings that bore fruit most like the parent with the least seeds. He named the fruit Ortanique, a combination of "orange," "tangerine" and "unique."
Ortanique seedlings were brought <span style="font-weight: bold">into </span>the US in the mid-1940s and became increasingly popular, especially in export markets. Initially planted most widely in California, the number of Florida plantings gradually increased and we now harvest Sweet Ortanique Oranges every February.
Our Sweet Ortanique Oranges are available February only.
"Make it Deluxe" option not available to Arizona, California, Louisiana and Texas; also some portions of Oklahoma, New Mexico and Nevada.
<span style="font-weight: bold">History</span>
The Sweet Ortanique Orange is a spontaneous hybrid of mandarin and sweet orange. In 1920 C. P. Jackson, of Mandeville, Jamaica, purchased some seedlings at an agricultural show. The seedlings had been grown by a man who found the unusual fruit at the <span style="font-weight: bold">Christiana market.</span> Jackson planted 130 seeds and subsequently selected the best seedlings that bore fruit most like the parent with the least seeds. He named the fruit Ortanique, a combination of "orange," "tangerine" and "unique."
Ortanique seedlings were brought <span style="font-weight: bold">into </span>the US in the mid-1940s and became increasingly popular, especially in export markets. Initially planted most widely in California, the number of Florida plantings gradually increased and we now harvest Sweet Ortanique Oranges every February.
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