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Article: When is an orange not an orange?
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- Agricultural Research
- Article date:
- February 1, 1992
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It's an orange! It's a tangerine! It's a grapefruit! Well, actually, it's all three.
"It's one-half orange, three-eights tangerine, and one-eight grapefruit," says plant breeder C. Jack Hearn.
Ambersweet, the newest orange hybrid developed by ARS horticulturist Hearn in the 1960's and released to growers in 1989, has been classified by the Florida Citrus Commission as an orange.
"This was for the purpose of fresh fruit sales," says chemist Manuel G. Moshonas. But about 90 percent of Florida's orange crop, he says, goes for processing into fresh and frozen orange juice.
Although Ambersweet looks, tastes, and smells like an orange, the ...