When citrus trees are grown in full sun, they are more stressed and, as a consequence, they are more likely to be affected by severe disease symptoms, such as from citrus greening disease.

Derek New’s Satsuma mandarin trees produced fruit for four of their seven or eight years of life at his farm in Baker. ... Despite the cold, citrus trees do grow in Northwest Florida ...

Florida citrus was born in St. Augustine, sprouting in the 1500s from a pocketful of seeds aboard a Spanish ship, a flowery display of colonial power amid many brutal ones.

When you see a commercial on TV or in the magazines of photos depicting someone in Florida or Southern California next to a beautiful tree full of oranges, and wished you had such a tree, dream no ...

One of the most tropical mandarins, widely grown in Asia and Brazil; used for canned mandarin oranges in China; a backyard tree in Florida, rare in California. Satsuma.

A new type of hybrid mandarin – also known as the Mandared, Red Nules and red clementine – with red flesh like a blood orange, this is a cross of blood orange and clementine bred in Sicily.

Since an agricultural boom in the 1990s, California’s mandarin plantings have increased tenfold, to 50,000 acres from 5,000. In the process, thanks to new offerings and deft marketing, mandarins ...