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  • COMMON NAME: Sweet Orange, Mosambi
  • ARABIC: البرتقال الحلو
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck
  • SYNONYMS: Citrus aurantium L. var. sinensis L.
  • FAMILY: RUTACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Fruits (F) Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs Tree
  • HABITATS: Terrace Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production.
http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0001249323 V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. https://www.efloraofgandhinagar.in/tree/citrus-sinensis https://www.gardensonline.com.au/GardenShed/PlantFinder/Show_929.aspx
Honey nectar plants. Edible fruit.
Shrubs or trees to 8 m high, the few axillary spines 2-3 mm long. Leaflets oblong elliptic to ovate or obovate, acute or obtuse and retuse apically, cuneate basally, the margins crenulate and somewhat revolute, 33-90 mm long, 15-43 mm wide; petioles usually with a narrow oblanceolate wing, 6-18 mm long, 1-2 mm wide, articulated with the leaflet. Flowers solitary, the peduncles glabrous, 7-12 mm long in fruit; calyx 5-lobed, 6 mm in diameter, the lobes acute, ciliate, 2 mm long. Fruits at maturity globose, flattened or depressed apically, yellow green to orange, 4-12 cm in diameter, sweet, the peel not easily separating from the segments. Flowering from March-April.
Cultivated places and farms.
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