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Tangerine florida1/7/2024 The industry entered the 2019-2020 season with an optimistic tone, expecting to continue a rebound after a disastrous 2017-2018 season in which Hurricane Irma reduced production. That number was below the 71.85 million boxes filled during the 2018-2019 season. Department of Agriculture on Friday, June 10 released final numbers for the 2019-2020 season, with growers filling 67.65 million 90-pound boxes, the industry-standard measurement. Photo and Caption: Recently, news came out that Florida’s citrus growing season ended on a sour note, with production of the state’s signature orange crop down about 6 percent from the prior season. Florida still produces 59% of America’s oranges, but citrus greening has cost the state $7.8 billion. The fruit’s unusual seedlessness and the fact that not a lot of people knew what it was exactly contributed to it not being very successfully mass-produced. Its unique flavor and appearance made the success of the Temple orange unsuccessful. But, in its heyday, consumers had not yet developed an infatuation for seedless and low-seeded fruit.Īvailability of more convenient, later-maturing, easier peeling, seedless navels (mostly from California) quickened its slide into consumer disfavor. The fruit could produce up to 40 seeds per fruit. The Temple orange’s high seed count was detrimental to its success. Temple also has been used extensively inbreeding. Various market names have been assigned over time, and the Temple’s official uses and classification have changed from orange, to a unique citrus category all its own, to present-day tangerine/mandarin status. Bill Castle), the ‘Sue Linda’, and the ‘Thoro’. There are many different types of the Temple presently or historically grown in Florida: The original or Standard Temple, the ‘Fertic’ (a low-scab selection entered by Dr. Records show harvest seasons of more than six million field boxes. Its popularity grew, and Florida peaked at approximately 20,000 acres. Though Temple has a unique mandarin/orange flavor, it provided a mid-season variety that consumers would perceive to be a peelable orange. He introduced the Temple into the marketplace around 1919 to 1920. Temple, the former manager of the Florida Citrus Exchange. Once in Winter Park, it came into the hands of W.C. The temple orange was discovered in Jamaica in the late 1800s and ultimately found its way to Oviedo and later Winter Park. The tangor is a citrus fruit hybrid of the mandarin orange and the sweet orange. The tangor name comes from the “tang” in tangerine and “or” as in orange. In honor of its 100th birthday in Florida, we are celebrating the Temple tangor, also known as the Temple orange.
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