The parent of the seedling found and grown in Florida by Colonel Dancy in 1867 was from Tangiers, Morocco. Mandarins, on the other hand, were something my mother bought in cans to mix into jello.ĭancy tangerines are tangy, though that isn’t the origin of word “tangerine.” In fact, it’s more likely the other way around.
Eating tangerines outside on Christmas morning is one of those special Southern California treats. We were required to eat them on the patio so we could spit the seeds at each other. To be specific, it was a Dancy tangerine, one of the first mandarin-type oranges that became commercially popular in the United States.ĭancy fruit are very juicy, easy to peel, very sweet but also more acidic than oranges, and quite seedy. Christmas and citrus are inextricably connected in my memories.Īs a child growing up in Southern California, the gourmet fruit in the toe of my Christmas stocking each year was a tangerine.
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