MANDARINS

Aoshima - Early fruiting and easy peeling. High internal quality. Small growing. May/July.

Burgess Scarlet - Rich-flavoured variety with highly coloured, aromatic, medium-sized fruit. Grow vigorously, ripens in September to October.

Clementine - Extremely popular and the best all round variety. Compact growth and very heavy crops of medium-sized, highly coloured fruit of excellent flavour. Ripens July, but fruit will hang on for months.

Corsica No.2 - Very similar to Clementine. Fruit tends to be larger with less pips. Fruits June/July.

Encore - A vigorous tree bearing fruit from November to February. Fruit medium to large in size, thin skin, juicy and rather seedless. Very sweet.

Hansen Late - Also called Allendale. Quite a vigorous grower and bears reasonably well in Spring.

Kara - Tree is medium-sized and fairly open and drooping in habit. The fruit medium to large, excellent flavour. Ripens from October to December.

Kawano - Medium-sized tree. Heavy cropping, free peeling and seedless. Ripens May to July.

Miho - Early fruiting and easy peeling. High sugar levels in fruit. Very popular export variety.

Miyagawa wase - A Satsuma strain variety fruiting very easily. Easy peeling with no pips. Requires a warm situation. Fruits very early. Fruit round in shape.

Murcott - Very similar to encore but ripens earlier. Vigorous grower.

Okitsu Wase - Very similar to Miyagawa buy may fruit earlier or later depending on location. More vigorous growing. Seedless, easy peel.

Ortanique - Producing good crops of highly coloured fruit. Rich and sweet. Ripens October to November.

Richards Special - Becoming a popular large sweet Mandarin. Ripens spring. Highly ornamental. Bright green foliage.

Satsuma - A very popular, sweet, seedless, easy to peel variety, ripening in June to July. Best picked as the fruit becomes puffy if left on tree.

Silver Hill - The earliest mandarin to ripen. Produces large crops of medium to large, easily peeled fruit. Fruit is sweet and juicy and segments separate easily. Commences to ripen June.

Thorney - One of the best flavoured of all mandarins. Ripens September, great colour. Fruit stays juicy if left on tree. Tends to be biennial cropping.