The taste of Washington and Cara Cara are essentially the same - that is, mostly sweet with little bite - and both have large juice vesicles.
I wanted a peeling orange, but instead of the standard Washington navel, which I grew up eating off of my grandparents’ trees, I decided to go with a slight twist and plant a Cara Cara navel orange tree. It is simply a Washington navel gone pink a Washington navel tree growing in Venezuela was found with one branch producing fruit that was pink inside. I wrote about why it’s God’s gift to children here, but in summary, the mandarins are not much bigger than a golf ball, the rind comes off so easily that you can peel it one handed, and, “It’s a burst of tangy sugar!” I wrote in my notebook during the tour at U.C.R. The Kishu, also called Seedless Kishu or Kishu Mini, is the best fruit tree for kids. Here are a few notes on why I chose the varieties that I chose: When I moved to a new house in 2013, I based my decisions on what to grow in my new yard on those experiences: my citrus-eating youth and my tasting of new varieties at U.C.R.
While I’m no citrus expert, nor have I tasted every cultivar of sweet orange or mandarin, I did grow up in a Southern California town that had been established as citrus groves (Glendora), and in fact I attended Citrus College, so throughout my youth I ran through orchards and tasted most all of the common kinds, including the old school, seedy types like Dancy tangerine, a tree of which my grandparents had in their yard.Īlso, I’ve been lucky enough to tour the Citrus Variety Collection at the University of California, Riverside where one can taste about a thousand different kinds of citrus fresh off the trees - no exaggeration, they have about a thousand citrus varieties growing there! During my tour (part of which was videoed and posted on YouTube), I tasted most of the newer kinds of oranges and mandarins that can be purchased as plants at nurseries in Southern California these days. The eating year basically runs like this: little mandarins starting in the fall, then peeling oranges in the winter, then bigger mandarins in the spring, and finally, slicing oranges in the spring through summer. While I do have some other types of citrus, the chart above shows the varieties of oranges and mandarins that I grow, along with the months in which their fruit taste best in my yard (twenty miles from the ocean in San Diego County). Citrus are so ubiquitous in Southern California that you might think they’re native, and they’re so easy to grow here that I’ve gone for planting multiple varieties in my yard with the aim of getting fresh fruit off the trees almost every month of the year.
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