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  • COMMON NAME: Mandarin orange, mandarin.
  • ARABIC: برتقال ماندرين
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Citrus reticulata Blanco
  • SYNONYMS: Citrus chachiensis, Citrus poonensis.
  • FAMILY: RUTACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Fruits (F) Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Tree
  • HABITATS: Terrace Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production.
V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000608241 https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/taxonomy/Citrus%20reticulata http://prgdb.crg.eu/wiki/Species:Citrus_reticulata
Edible fruit. Honey nectar plants.
Small trees. Branchlets numerous, with few spines. Leaves 1-foliolate; leaf blade lanceolate, elliptic, or broadly ovate, basal articulated part to leaf blade usually narrow or only a remnant, midvein furcate near apex, margin apically obtusely crenulate or rarely entire, apex emarginate. Flowers solitary to 3 in a fascicle. Calyx irregularly 3-5-lobed. Petals usually 1.5 cm or less. Stamens 20-25. Style long, slender; stigma clavate. Fruit pale yellow, orange, red, or carmine, oblate to subglobose, smooth or coarse; pericarp very thin to thick, easily removed; sarcocarp with 7-14 segments or rarely more, sweet to acidic and sometimes bitter, with few to many seeds or rarely seedless; pulp vesicles plump, short, rarely slender and long. Seeds usually ovoid, base rounded, apex narrow and acute; embryos numerous, rarely solitary; cotyledons dark green, pale green, or milky white; chalaza purple. Flowering from March-April.
Cultivated places and farms.