JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Florida’s citrus industry is in crisis. In the last 20 years, production has fallen a staggering 90%—from 300 million boxes a year to just 12 million last season. The Florida ...

Compact orange tree varieties make it possible to enjoy fresh citrus almost anywhere, bringing color, fragrance, and fruit to ...

The typical season for the mandarin harvest is November through January. But Bob Bonk of Snow's Citrus Court said the last two years haven't been typical at the family-owned and operated citrus grove ...

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The original mandarin, Citrus reticulata, comes from a small, spiny evergreen tree native to southeast Asia that has been cultivated and eaten in China and Japan for centuries. According to "The Food ...

This relative of the common orange provides loads of antioxidants and vitamin C, not to mention a couple of other nutrients. Mandarin oranges rank 5th on our list of easiest edible plants to grow ...

Soon after Ralene and Larry Snow moved to Newcastle in 1974, their daughters discovered a small grove of Mandarin oranges on a nearby plot of land once occupied by Chinese immigrants. "Our daughters ...

The purpose of this work was to study the population dynamics of Diaphorina citri Kuwayama (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) in orchards of 'Valencia' orange, 'Ponkan' mandarin, and 'Murcott' tangor trees ...

Bruce Xiao trudged ahead of me in his Kishu mandarin orange groves carrying a tiny Chihuahua in one arm. The Kishu, a rare and exceptionally sweet fruit, has a narrow harvest window that typically ...