Citrus Varieties
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We carry a large selection of Citrus. Availability and sizes change. We can not
list every
size and price here.
Please call or e-mail for specifics on varieties, pricing, and sizes available.
Prices depend on variety.
In general, trees are in 2, 3, and 5 gallon pots and are $35 to $50 depending on type.
| Tree | Variety | Description |
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| Calamondin | Citrus microcarpa This is a cold tolerant mandarin/ kumquat cross, widely grown in Asia, fruit is tangy and resembles a small slightly flattened orange. Rind is sweet, pulp is seedy and used for flavoring. Used in making marmalades, this tree is most decorative and can survive in a small pot for years. Food plant for butterflies. | |
| Grapefruit | C. × paradisi Grapefruit is a hybrid originating in Barbados as an accidental cross between two introduced species, sweet orange (C. sinensis) and pomelo or shaddock (C. maxima), both of which were introduced from Asia in the seventeenth century. | |
| Grapefruit | Bloomsweet Grapefruit | |
| Grapefruit | Golden Grapefruit | C. × paradisi |
| Grapefruit | Oro Blanco Grapefruit | Citrus grandis × C. Paradisi/Citrus maxima/Citrus grandis a sweet seedless citrus hybrid (diploid acidless pomelo and a seedy white tetraploid grapefruit) fruit similar to grapefruit |
| Grapefruit | Rio Red Grapefruit | |
| Grapefruit | Ruby Red Grapefruit | Delicious sweet red meat, produces every year. Vigorous, superior variety, almost seedless. |
| Kumquat | Changshou | Citrus japonica |
| Kumquat | Meiwa Sweet Kumquat | (Sweet Kumquat) Superior variety with heavy yields that are sweet and have few seeds. This nearly thornless kumquat has round fruit and is considered the best for eating. Produces sweet fruit in cool coastal climates. Easy to grow. |
| Kumquat | Nagami Kumquat | |
| Lemon | Eureka variegated pink Lemon | Unusual variety with cream colored variegation. Striped fruit has a pink meat, makes good lemonade. |
| Lemon | Improved Meyer Lemon | Citrus × limon This is a cross between a lemon and possibly an orange or a mandarin. Tends to be ever bearing, most popular, sweet fruit ripens summer, smooth skin, hardy to 25 degrees, dwarf habit, easy to grow. |
| Lemon | Iranian Lemon | Large cold hardy lemon. |
| Lemon | Seedless Lisbon Lemon | |
| Lemon | Ponderosa Lemon | (9 pound lemon) Unusual lemon with large flowers and huge fruit, ripens year round, hardy to 25 degrees. |
| Lemon | Ujukitsu | |
| Lime | Kaffir Lime Citrus hystrix | Much sought after, leaves used in Asian and Thai cooking, hardy to 28 degrees. |
| Lime | thornless Key Lime | Bartenders Lime or Key Lime, medium sized fruit, has few seed, most popular, hardy to 25 degrees. |
| Lime | Persian Lime Citrus latifolia | (bears lime) Larger fruit than Mexican lime, acidic and very juicy, matures to yellow, picked green, this variety is cold hardier than Mexican lime. |
| Lime | Dwarf Mexican Lime | |
| Manderine | Algerian (Clementine) | Citrus × clementina Clementines are the tiniest of the mandarins. Imported from Spain, Morocco, and other parts of North Africa, clementines are a cross between a sweet orange and a Chinese mandarin. They are small, very sweet, and usually seedless. Most people think of clementines as small tangerines, but they are a different variety entirely, with a distinctive taste. The Clementine is an excellent eating orange. Its small size and lack of seeds make it particularly popular with kids. |
| Manderine | Honey Mandarine | |
| Manderine | Kishu Manderine Seedless | Citrus reticulata |
| Manderine | Pong Koa Manderine | |
| Orange | Cara Cara Navel Orange | Grown primarily in Venezuela, South Africa, and the California San Joaquin Valley. It is believed to have developed as a cross between the Washington navel and the Brazilian Bahia navel. |
| Orange | Hamlin sweet Orange | |
| Orange | Mandarin Orange | Citrus reticulata The tree is more drought-tolerant than the fruit. The mandarin is tender, and is damaged easily by cold. The mandarin orange is but one variety of the orange family. The mandarin has many names, some of which actually refer to crosses between the mandarin and another citrus fruit. Some varieties are Satsuma (of which there are 200 cultivars), Clementine, Tangerine, Tangor. |
| Orange | Moro Blood Orange | Citrus sinensis "Moro" Deep red coloration, almost purple-red, due to the presence of anthocyanin. Very productive, early maturity, distinctive aroma. |
| Orange | Pineapple Orange | the least cold hardy of the orange varieties |
| Orange | Red Navel Orange | Large flavorful, nearly seedless, easy to peel, very sweet, ripens early, medium sized tree with round top. |
| Orange | Republic of Texas | Citrus sinensis "Republic of Texas" the only true cold-hardy orange tree, produces a sweet, seedy, medium-sized orange that ripens between November and January |
| Pumello | Chandler Red Pumello | Citrus maxima The pomelo is the largest citrus fruit. It tastes like a sweet, mild grapefruit, though the typical pomelo is much larger in size than the grapefruit. Native to Southeast Asia. It is pale green to yellow when ripe, with sweet white (or, more rarely, pink or red) flesh and very thick albedo (rind pith). |
| Pumello | Sarawak | |
| Satsuma | Arctic Frost Satsuma | (patented) |
| Satsuma | Brown Select Satsuma | Citrus unshiu |
| Satsuma | Kimbrough Satsuma | nice full size, much sought after and extra hardy |
| Satsuma | Okitsu Satsuma | Same qualities as Owari, newer, ripens slightly earlier. |
| Satsuma | Owari Satsuma | The original and the most cold hardy citrus for the area, a mandarin cross, this sweet nearly seedless orange looks and peels like a tangerine. Slow growing tree reaching 10 to 12ft, heavy producer ripens October - December. Easy to grow! |
| Tangerine | Algerian (Clementine) | |
| Tangerine | Dancy | The rind has deep reddish-orange color at maturity and is easily peeled due to the thin, leathery peel. |
| Tangerine | Sunburst | Citrus × tangerina This variety bears big, red-orange, thin skinned fruit in late fall. Nearly seedless with a rich flavor, heavy yields. |
| Tangelo | Orlando | |
| Tangelo | Wekiwa | Citrus × tangelo Tangelo is a citrus fruit that is a hybrid of a tangerine and either a pomelo or a grapefruit.Tangelos generally have loose skin and are easier to peel than oranges. They are easily distinguished from oranges by a characteristic knob at the top of the fruit. |
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