Bitter orange fruits: care, flowering & use of Seville oranges

The bitter orange, also called Seville orange, is a hybrid citrus plant. Below you will find tips on cultivation, care and use of the exotic plant.


Bitter oranges, also known as Seville oranges, resemble normal orange, but are much smaller [Photo: nnattalli/ Shutterstock.com]
Exotic citrus plants are very popular in this country. But while lemons and oranges are increasingly cultivated, bitter orange is rarely found. Here you will find a short profile of this special plant, as well as some tips on cultivation, proper care and use of the bright orange fruits.

Blood Orange Fruits

From the outside, a blood orange may look like any old orange, but as soon as you cut into one of these beauties you can see the difference. The blood orange has deep crimson-colored flesh and a complex flavor. It's similar in taste to a sweet navel orange, but with a hint of tart and floral flavor as well. The blood orange is in season from October through May, but at its peak in February and early March.

Tangerines orange fruits

Tangerines are small, brightly colored oranges. They have slightly looser peels than most oranges, which makes them easy to peel and eat out of hand. Tangerines are very sweet — as is their juice. Thus, some people prefer tangerine juice over traditional orange juice. Most tangerines have seeds in them, but you may be able to find seedless varieties as well.

Tangerines have quite a long season, running from November all the way through May, which makes them an easy orange to find.

Mandarin Orange Fruits

A mandarin orange (Citrus reticulata), also known as mandarin or mandarine, is a small, rounded citrus tree fruit. Treated as a distinct species of orange,[1] it is usually eaten plain or in fruit salads.[1] Tangerines are a group of orange-colored citrus fruit consisting of hybrids of mandarin orange with some pomelo contribution. 


The mandarin orange is smaller and oblate,[1] unlike the spherical common orange (which is a mandarin-pomelo hybrid).[2] The taste is considered sweeter and stronger than the common orange.[3] A ripe mandarin orange is firm to slightly soft, heavy for its size, and pebbly-skinned. The peel is thin and loose,[1] with little white mesocarp,[4] so they are usually easier to peel and to split into segments.[1] Hybrids usually have these traits to a lesser degree. The mandarin orange is tender and is damaged easily by cold. It can be grown in tropical and subtropical areas.[1][3]
According to genetic studies, the mandarin orange was one of the original citrus species; through breeding or natural hybridization, it is the ancestor of many hybrid citrus cultivars. With the citron and pomelo, it is the ancestor of the most commercially important hybrids (such as sweet and sour oranges, grapefruit, and many lemons and limes). The mandarin orange has also been hybridized with other citrus species, such as desert lime and the kumquat.[2] Though the ancestral mandarin orange was bitter, most commercial mandarin strains derive from hybridization with pomelo, which gives them sweet fruit.[5]

Washington Navel Orange Varieties Grafted Orange Fruit Live Plants and Trees (1-2 ft Size)

The Washington Navel Orange, a popular citrus fruit, features a thick peel, seedless segments, and a sweet, tangy taste. It's renowned for juicing and fresh consumption due to its excellent flavor and easy-to-peel skin.
Orange Plant that can grow in almost all Indian climates and Soil. It can grow in your Garden also in a pot. Plant Grafted is for to bear fruit early.
The provided images have been used to give the buyer an accurate idea of the plant. But we promise to give you the original plant of the same variety.
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we promises to send you a healthy plant. But the leaves may look dry due to transportation, my advice is take good care your plant it will achieve healthy.

Navel Oranges

Navel oranges are the most common type of orange that consumers eat. They are recognizable by the small hole at the top of the fruit that resembles a navel.

These oranges are sweet and seedless, which makes them the perfect snacking orange to eat out of hand. Also, if you like fresh orange juice, you can use navel oranges to make fresh-squeezed juice, but because the juice is quite sweet it can ferment and go bad if not consumed quickly.

Navel oranges are in season from November to June, with their peak season in January and February.

Types of Oranges You Need To Know About

From Seville oranges to satsumas, here's everything you need to know about the most popular orange varieties and how to shop for them.

When you're craving a citrusy snack, the easiest thing you can reach for is a fresh orange. Whether you want a sweet, juicy bite or a tart taste that will make your lips pucker, there's an orange out there for everyone. And the best part about this vibrant family of fruit is, they all come in their very own portable packaging!

Cultivation orange fruits

The tree of the sweet orange often reaches 6 metres (20 feet) in height. The broad, glossy, evergreen leaves  are medium-sized and ovate; the petioles (leafstalks) have narrow wings. Its white five-petaled flowers  are very fragrant. The fruit is a modified berry known as a hesperidium, and the flesh is divided into segments called carpels. The usual shape of the sweet-orange fruit is round and the colour of its pulp orange, but there are variations. The mandarin, for example, is distinctly flattened, and the blood orange has red pulp. The pulp of the sweet orange is agreeably acidulous and sweet; the leathery peel is comparatively smooth; and the oil glands are convex. Oranges are picked when fully ripe, for, unlike some deciduous fruits, they do not ripen or improve in quality after being picked. The trees bear abundantly from 50 to 80 years or even more, and some old orange trees whose age must be reckoned by centuries still produce crops.

Orange fruits

orange, any of several species of small trees or shrubs of the genus Citrus of the family Rutaceae and their nearly round fruits, which have leathery and oily rinds and edible, juicy inner flesh. A number of species and varieties of orange are economically important, namely the China orange, also called the sweet, or common, orange (Citrus  ×sinensis); the mandarin orange (C. reticulata), some varieties of which are called tangerines; and the sour, or Seville, orange (C. ×aurantium), which is less extensively grown. Common varieties of the sweet orange include the Jaffa, from Israel, the seedless navel, and the Maltese, or blood, orange.