Citrus × aurantium (Introduced)

Introduced into: Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Cambodia, Canary Is., Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Central American Pac, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Cook Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Florida, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Haiti, Iraq, Italy, Jamaica, Korea, Laos, Leeward Is., Libya, Line Is., Louisiana, Madeira, Marianas, Mauritius, Mexico Southeast, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, New Caledonia, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Rodrigues, Réunion, Santa Cruz Is., Socotra, Solomon Is., Somalia, Spain, Tadzhikistan, Tibet, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Tunisia, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is., West Himalaya as per POWO;
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(Included as per POWO: Citrus × aurantium L.: Sour orange, Khatta; Citrus × reticulata Blanco: Orange, Santra; Citrus × sinensis (L.) Osbeck: Sweet orange, Musambi)
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Citrus aurantium L.: Asm.: Chakla-tenga, Dewa-tenga. Karun-jamir, Tita-karuna; Hindi: Khatta; Kan.: Herlay; Kh.: Soh-thang; Tam.: Kitchili Narengam, Narattai; Tel.: Mallika narangi. The sour orange. as per BSI flora of India;
Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck: Beng., Guj., Hindi, Mar.: Kamala nembu, Musambi, Narungi; Kan.: Kittile, Sathagudi; Kh.: Soh-niungriang; Punj.: Malta Orange; Tam.: Sathagudi, Chini; Tel.: Battavinarinja, Buddasini, Satghudi, Sini. The sweet orange. as per BSI Flora of India;
Citrus reticulata Blanco: Beng.: Kamala; Hindi: Santra; Kan.: Kudag orange; Kh.: Soh-myntra, Soh-nimantra; Tam.: Walalja Kamara. The Indian loose jacket orange, Mandarins as per BSI flora of India;
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C. deliciosa × C. maxima as per POWO;
Fruits large, Petioles marginate or narrowly winged; wings up to 6 mm broad; Small to medium size trees as per BSI Flora of India;

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Fruits & Vegetables Week: Citrus paradisii, the Grape fruit:
Citrus paradisii, the Grape fruit, another large fruit of the American continent, a hybrid between C. sinensis and C. maxima.

Fruit is orange-yellow up to 15 cm across. The fruit is acidic and varying in sweetness, the pulp white, pink to reddish.

– We two eat one fruit every morning. It is sour to sweet and a bit bitter too. But with plenty of sugar it tastes very well.

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Fruits & Vegetables Week: Citrus paradisii, the Grape fruit here my fotos:
The color can be from yellow to red. Taste, sour-sweet and a bit bitter!

grapefruit plants:
Can somebody help me byr letting me know where in Mumbai, Delhi or Pune can one get grapefruit plants?

Near Mumbai there is a nursery called Pathare Nursery. The address is as follows :
Pathare Nursery
Near Shivaji Chowk,
Ambedkar Road, Kalyan
Tel: 0251-2203966
You will get all types of grafted fruit trees. Once I enquired about the grapefruit graft. They are selling it.

Citrus tree for ID :: Jammu :: May2018 MK002 : 16 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (2)
Please identify this Citrus tree found growing in gardens. The fruits (20 cm across) with thick rind is edible.

Habitat: homestead garden

Alt.: 310 m asl

Date: 22.01.2018
Place: Jammu (outskirts, rural), J & K

Fruit image image is not clear.

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Citrofortunella

Sorry. Not if it’s 20 cm fruit.

Also check species available with images at Citrus

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it is Citrus aurantium (sour orange or khatta) locally known as Gohdah khatta.
Attaching a comparative photograph for reference.

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Rutaceae Week: Citrus paradisi Maf. from California:
Citrus paradisi Macfad., Bot. Misc. 1:304. 1830

Common name: Grapefruit

Fruit large like Citrus grandis, reaching 15 cm in diameter, rind much thinner and orange yellow in colour, leaves smaller and glabrous on veins and pulp vesicles more tightly packed.
Photographed from California

Another confuser for me. It appears like mosambi – not sure if they are sold in Indian markets.

Please ignore the last photograph. …, The broadly winged petiole is distinctive for both C. grandis and C. paradisi

Id of a tree bearing flower and fruit : 8 posts by 6 authors. Attachments (2).

Which Is this tree bearing flowers and a fruit ?

Saw it in Kakoijana village near Manas National Park, Guwahati. Date- 03.03.2014

May be some member of Rutaceae.

Citrus sp.?,,,,,,

Grape fruit! Citrus!

The flower and fruit looks like Pomelo (Citrus grandis) to me. However i cannot be sure as i have not seen the flower and fruit of grape fruit(Citrus x paradisi). The shape of the fruit is a dead giveaway. While Pomelo is kind of pear shaped, grapefruit is usually fully round.

Thanks … In Pomelo the petals look bit roundish while in grapefruit slightly elongated. Even the fruit doesn’t seem to be pear-shaped. It is almost round. I feel it should be paradisi but i would still like to confirm.

It is not Citrus. The leaf-shape does not match. Uploading the few photos from my house.

Yes C. paradisi looks good, C. grandis (now C. maxima) would have much larger fruit

Both POWO and CoL give it a syn. of Citrus aurantium L.

Citrus Species for ID : Nasik : 04MAY21 : AK-03: 2 images.
Citrus flowers seen in a farm.
A small tree.

Looks more like Citrus maxima. Kannada Chakotha grown here.

Thanks, …, for the suggestion.
Citrus species are better identified by fruits.
Any specific reason as to why is it cultivated in a farm ?
Is it (if Citrus maxima) locally used ?

It was a single tree with other fruit trees around the farm house.

There is no fruit picture ??? I did what best I could do after verification.

I received a reply from the owner of the farm.
It is Grapefruit.

MS,Dec.,2020/22 Citrus sp. for id.
Location : Marpara, Mizoram
Altitude : 10-900 m

Date : 20-12-2020

Habit : Shrub

Habitat : Cultivated

Size of fruit : L= 10-11.5 cm dia.

B or W= 8.5-10 cm dia.

Note : Fruit is acid, very juicy, edible

Citrus limon ?

I think same as in other posts at Citrus hystrix

I think this may also be Citrus aurantium as per MS,Sept,2021/13 Citrus sp. for id

MS,Sept,2021/13 Citrus sp. for id: 3 images.
Location : Kolasib, Mizoram

Date : 07-08-2019

Habit : Large shrub

Habitat : Cultivated

I hope Citrus aurantium

MS,Oct.,2021/10 Citrus sp. for id.: 5 images.
Location : Luangpawl & Marpara

Date : 02-03-2016(fl.) & 20-12-2020(fr.)

Habit : Shrub

Habitat : Cultivated

Mizo : Sêrtuibûr
Note : Fruit very juicy

Citrus grandis (L.) Osbeck

Not C. grandis, with such narrow petiole wing

I think this may also be Citrus aurantium as per MS,Sept,2021/13 Citrus sp. for id

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Fruits & Vegetables Week: RVS-4:
Kamala orange (Tamil), from Sirumalai hills, Tamil Nadu.

– Name Citrus reticulata is indicated with photographs. Unfortunately the name orange is differently applied. We call orange in India to C. reticulata, people here in USA call it as Mandarin and apply the name orange to. C. sinensis (our Malta, Mausami, etc). I will upload my photographs of Citrus once I reach India on 7th Jan.

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Fruits & Vegetables Week: Citrus reticulata, the Mandarine orange:
Citrus reticulata, the Mandarine orange, commonly known as orange or Santara
In India, loose skinned orange commonly used as table fruit and as source of orange juice.

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Fruits & Vegetables Week: Citrus reticulata, the Kinnow:
Citrus reticulata, the Kinnow, a fruit mainly from India and Pakistan. It is a hybrid of two citrus cultivars — “King” (Citrus nobilis) x “Willow Leaf” (Citrus deliciosa) — first developed by H. B. Frost at the Citrus Research Centre of the University of California. Punjab Agriculture College and Research Institute, Lyallpur, introduced the kinnow. In India this variety was introduced by J. C. Bakhshi in 1954 at the Punjab Agricultural University, Regional Fruit Research Station, Abohar. It has become an important variety in the Punjab provinces of both India and Pakistan, occupying a major part of the area under cultivation for fruit crops.

-Since I knew, I always thought both Narangi and Kinnow as the same thing, untill my brother-in-law who happens to be an software engineer, told me that sometimes in 2009 that they are different, though he didnt have any explanations to support. Since then I wanted to know what exactly this is…..now is know!!!

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Fruit and Vegetable Week: Klementinen:
a variety of mandarin (Citrus reticulata), named in 1902

http://www.worldlingo.com/ma/enwiki/en/Clementine
Very popular, available only in winter. The smell is typical X’mas smell.

Indian names of an orange: Could you please supply me with various Indian names, preferably in original scripts, for this orange / mandarin.
Citrus poonensis hort. ex Tanaka　
SYNONYM(S): Citrus poonensis Osbeck ?, Citrus reticulata Blanco ‘Oneco‘ ? Citrus reticulata Blanco ‘Poongan‘ , Citrus reticulata Blanco ‘Ponkan‘, Citrus reticulata Blanco ‘Suntara‘ , Citrus reticulata Blanco var. poonensis (Hayata) H. H. Hu
CHINESE : Mi gan (Zhangzhou), 椪柑 Peng gan, 椪 Pon (Guangdong), 椪柑 Peng gan (Taiwan), Lu gan (Zhangzhou, Fujian) , Lu gan (Taiwan), Lu (Hong Kong, Taiwan), Mei gan (Hunan province), Bai ju (Yunnan, Jianshui of Rennan province), Meng ban ju (Xisongbanna of Rennan province) , Mi tong gan, 有柑 You ga (Taiwan).
ENGLISH : Batangas mandarin, Chinese honey orange, Ponkan mandarin, Poona orange, Suntara mandarin,Suntara orange, Lu tangerine.

FRENCH : Mandarine Ponkan, Mandarine Ponkan de Formose, Mandarine Suntara, Mandarine Suntara de l’Inde.

HINDI : Nagpur suntara, Nangpur suntara.

JAPANESE : ポンカン Ponkan, 椪柑 Ponkan.

TAGALOG : Batangas.
VIETNAMESE : Cam ngọt Trung Quốc.

Bolded names are the preferred names. See our note on Jiao & Lu mandarins.

Strangely, given that this is a well known Chinese cultivar, the latest taxonomy appears to favour the botanical Citrus reticulata Blanco ‘Ponkan‘ which is base on the romanised Japanese name. It does however, by association, link it to the Hindi name “Suntara”. We still have to determine if “Suntara” = “Nagpur suntara”. After the Chinese brainstorm we have an Indian brainstorm to initiate. That should give us a number of Indian names.

Photo close-ups of fruit, inside and outside views.

It is known as Santara and another name Kamala

Yes these names are applied to Citrus reticulata Blanco and sometimes (wrongly?) to other species but we are trying to identify a cultivar of Citrus reticulata Blanco (or a different related species Citrus poonensis) so we need a longer or different name, perhaps “Nangpur santara” ? I often see the names কমলা Kamalā, कमला Kamalā, கமலா Kamalā, కమలా Kamalā, সান্তারা Sāntārā, संतरा Santarā, सुन्तला Suntalā, સંતરાSantarā, but I don’t know how to write Nagpur, Nangpur, Nangpoor in any script given that none of those 3 transcriptions is enough to transliterate. Is “suntara” = “santara” it could be that “suntara” refers to some other fruit or that it is simply a bad transcription (Suntalā is Nepali).
I get the feeling that Santara and Kamala are generic names, although there is a cultivar called “Kamala” (Citrus reticulata Blanco ‘Kamala‘) in India. As you see my confusion is growing.
Please confirm that there is a “Nangpur santara” or something sounding like this. If so what does it apply to?

Not sure whether the following pertains to Citrus poonensis hort. ex Tanaka OR Citrus reticulata Blanco ‘Ponkan’
But validating the spellings and providing them in native scripts.
HINDI …………………………………………………………………………………………….
नागपुर संतरा Nagpur santaraनागपुर Nagpur
It s name of a city in central India well known for cultivation of oranges in a very large scale संतरा santara … Wikipedia
संतरा santara is generic name for the orange derived from: URDU سنگترا sangtara … PERSIAN سنگتره sangtara … supposed to be a correlation of PORTUGUESE cintra
A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English by John T. Platts
Nangpur
Nangpur in this context is ruled out. Nagpur has no such popular variance in name, unless validated otherwise.
नांगपुर Nangpur is also a name of place … a small village in Faridabad, though in no way popular for oranges.
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Same name in:
MARATHI … नागपुर संत्र Nagpur santra

Have not heard of Nangpur santara … please let validating comment(s) come by.
Nagpur is a well known city — but Nangpur is a small village, not associated to oranges … friends to validate.
Whether Nagpur is called as Nangpur by certain set of population (rare possibility) … friends to validate.
GUJARATI નાગપુર સંતરા Nagpur santara … equivalent of … HINDI नागपुर संतरा Nagpur santara
HINDI …………….
कमला kamala (vulg. kamla, variances: kaula or kaunla)
A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English by John T. Platts
may not be as generic as संतरा santara … कमला kamala could be more probably specific
कौंला kaunla
a variance of कमला kamala
A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English by John T. Platts
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संतरा santara is generic name for orange
नागपुर संत्र Nagpur santra is name given to all oranges supplied from Nagpur
Thus they cannot be equated …

As I said in earlier post I am no expert but in Gujarati
નાગપુરી સંતરા Nagpuri santara sounds correct and better instead: નાગપુર સંતરા Nagpur santara.
Would definitely like experts to comment.

Rutaceae Week: Citrus reticulata “Kinnow” from Delhi:
Citrus reticulata cv. Kinnow
This cultivar common in India and Pakistan according to Wikipedia is a hybrid of two citrus cultivars — “King” (Citrus nobilis) x “Willow Leaf” (Citrus deliciosa) — first developed by H. B. Frost at the Citrus Research Centre of the University of California, Riverside, USA.
The fruit is golden orange, slightly depressed, and easily peeled off, contains lots of juice and excellent flavour.

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Rutaceae Week: Citrus reticulata Blanco from Delhi and Kausani:
Citrus reticulata Blanco, Fl. Filip. 610. 1837

syn: Citrus chrysocarpa Lush.; Citrus deliciosa Ten.

Common names: Mandarin orange, Loose-skinned orange, Mandarine, Tangerine, Orange (in India)

Hindi: Santara

Beng: Kamala

The commonly sold as orange or santra in India, differentiated by its loose skin which easily peels off and segments easily separated by hand.

Photographed from Delhi and Kausani

Rutaceae Week: Citrus reticulata “Satsuma” from California:
Citrus reticulata “Satsuma”
Common name: Satsuma orange
A seedless variety popular in USA. Photographed from Store in California.

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Rutaceae Week_RVS5_Citrus reticulata?:
Is this Citrus reticulata?
Captured at an orchard in Sirumalai hills, TN.
This had loose jacket and sweet pulp!
Tamil name (I think): ‘Kamala orange’ கமலா ஆரஞ்சு

Yes …,
From your description and the name it is likely to be Citrus reticulata Blanco ‘Kamala‘
The name கமலாப்பழம் is often found but only applied to the species Citrus reticulata Blanco. That’s fair, however “Kamala” is a cultivar. One can see a parallel with the Mosambi story.
A cultivar name is transferred to the species, and then other species for all sorts of twisted reasons.
Here is what I have compiled. I leave it up to the experts in the group to cross out the wrong names and / or correct the spelling mistakes.
Citrus reticulata Blanco ‘Kamala‘

ASSAMESE : Sumothira.

BENGALI : কমলা Komala (Kamalā), কমলা গাছ Kamalā gācha, কমলালেবু Komalalebu (Kamala leboo, Kamalālēbu), কমলালেবু গাছ Kamalālēbu gācha (tree), কমলালেবুর গাছ Kamalālēbura gācha (tree), নাগরঙ্গ Nāgaraṅga নারঙ্গ Nāraṅga নারাঙ্গা Nārāṅgāনারাঙ্গি Nārāṅgiসান্তারা Sāntārā সান্তোলা Sāntōlā.

ENGLISH : Kamala orange, Orange.
GUJARATI : નારંગી Naarangii (naarNgii), સંતરા Santaraa, Santra.
HINDI : कमला Kamalā, Kamla, Kaula, कौंला Kaunla, संतरा Santara, Santra.
KANNADA : Kittale.
NEPALESE : कमला Kamalaa, सुन्तला Suntalā.
ORIYA : Kamala.
MARATHI : Santre.
SANSKRIT : कमला Kamalaa (Kamlaa), Kamalaa niibuu.
TAMIL : கமலா Kamalā, கமலாப்பழம் Kamalāppaḻam .
TELUGU : కమలా పండు Kamala pandu (Kamalā paṇḍu).
Please let us know also if any of those names are applied to other species or cultivars.

Some of the petiole here in the picture are winged while yours pulvinus petiole?

Planting lemon with oranges:
I am planting about 100 orange plant on my field. Is it advisable to plant some lemon trees in the same field??
Will they affect orange crop through cross pollination??
Advise on this will be very helpfull.

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Fruits & Vegetables Week: Citrus sinensis, The Narangi fruit:
Citrus sinensis, small fruited Narangi grown primarily as bonsai but fruits often consumed raw, or for extracting juice.

After seeing ripe fruit and leaves I am now sure that this is C. reticulata and not C. sinensis.

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Rutaceae Week: Citrus sinensis “Narangi” or x Citrofortunella microcarpa please help in sorting:
This small fruited orange in our College Botanical Garden with fruit mostly less than 5 cm in diameter maturing orange yellow we have been calling as Narangi. After … today morning having similar plant by … from Delhi as x Citrofortunella microcarpa, has put me in doubt. The fruits look similar, but reddish tinge on flower buds is missing in our plant. I also don’t see the winged petiole in both my and … plants.

A little photographic trick is to include in a corner of the photo an object as a visual indication the size of the fruit / leaves. A ruler, a matchbox or anything that one would recognize. Hands and fingers do not work because they vary too much in size and can deceive more than they help.
You all impressed me when you identify plants from photos.

After seeing the ripe fruits, and leaves I am sure that this plant is Citrus reticulata and not C. sinensis. Narangi is perfect Hindi name for C. reticulata.

Thanks, …, In view of your reply, does any other thread needs to move from Citrus sinensis to Citrus reticulata ?

No …, rest are fine

Species Citrus reticulata often includes both Manderin (C. reticulata) as well as Tangerine (C. tangerina). which also includes C. x deliciosa according to most databases including TPL.

For quite some time I have been facing and pointing out contradiction/corrections in TPL and looking for alternative reliable database, which could give same confidence as Index Kewensis. GRIN does not have contradictions, but not all world names are included. It was as such a great relief to know about “Plants of the World’ from Dr. Anzar a Kew Initiative launched in 2017.

The more I go through this database http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org/ the more confidence I develop for this database.

The database treats Manderin (Citrus reticulalata) and Tangerine (Citrus deliciosa (syn: C. tangerina)) as two distinct species

Manderin fruits, Citrus reticulata, (our santra) is larger in size, oblate in shape, rind somewhat wrinkled, orange yellow in colour, larger segments

Tangerine, Citrus deliciosa (syn. C. tangetina) is smaller size, mostly less than 8 cm, rounded in shape, orange red in shape especially when ripe, rind smooth, thinner, easier to peel with smaller segments.
I am uploading both fruits for comparison

Thanks, …, Does that mean the original post here by you, is of Citrus deliciosa (syn. C. tangetina) ?

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Binsar, UK :: Citrus tree for ID :: ARK2020-032 : 7 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2)

This tree was found near Binsar, Uttarakhand in November 2012.

Is this the normal orange (Citrus reticulata)?

Requested to please ID.

Hope it was seen as cultivated ? Pl. confirm.

Yes … This was seen in a cultivated orchard.

Original images may give better idea of the texture of the fruits. Pl. post.

Attached are the cropped pics of the fruits, hoping they will aid in ID.
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I also think, it may be Citrus reticulata

Citrus unshiu ‘Okitsu’: 4 very high res. images.

Location: Eden Project, Cornwall, UK

Altitude: 60m.

Date: 03 April 2022
Habit : Cultivated

(Citrus deliciosa Ten. as per POWO)

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Fruits & Vegetables Week: Citrus sinensis, Valencia orange:
Citrus sinensis, Valencia orange. The Valencia or Murcia orange is one of the sweet oranges used for juice extraction. It is a late-season fruit, and therefore a popular variety when the navel oranges are out of season. For this reason, the orange was chosen to be the official mascot of the 1982 FIFA World Cup, which was held in Spain. The mascot was called “Naranjito” (“little orange”), and wore the colours of the Spanish football team uniform.

upcoming Citrus week:
I stumbled upon an old discussion string regarding Citrus in general and Mosambi in particular.
In the past few months I have made much progress towards my own “de-confusion” or clarification of mind.
I think that, as far as names are concerned, I can bring a little leadership in the coming Citrus week.
I would suggest first that whenever a name is mentioned, at the very least its original location should be mentioned, its corresponding name in script (as opposed to the ever misleading romanised version) should be given, and if possible the matching botanical name. I can provide much of what would be missing but we may wish to limit ourselves to short lists. At this point it is not helpful to check my MMPND pages on “Sorting Citrus names” but I will mention when a more reliable string of names is being posted on that site. I truely believe that our discussion group has the potential to sort most of the nomenclatural confusion in regards to Citrus. It may take more than a week though, especially if people send a lot of photos.
2 examples of resolved names in Bengali and Hindi:
মোসাম্বি (Mōsāmbi) -> Citrus × sinensis (L.) Osbeck ‘Mosambi‘
मौसम्बी Mausambee -> Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck (Navel Group) -> Citrus × sinensis (L.) Osbeck ‘Mosambi‘
This simply proves that one has to look further down than the generic level in order to clarify the vernacular, especially when dealing with cultivated food plants.

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Rutaceae Week: Citrus sinensis “Malta” from Kausani:
Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck, Reise Ostindien 250. 1765
Common names: Sweet orange, tightskinned orange
This tight skinned orange which generally needs to be sliced instead of peeling and separating segments as in C. reticulata has numerous cultivars. This one photographed from Kausani is known as Malta.

Many thanks .., good to see the malta plant.
I had twice bought the fruits considering them to be orange.

Rutaceae Week: Botanical name of Mosambi:
Not able to resurface I am reviving the older thread through this link
https://groups.google.com/Mousambi/indiantreepix/bKX8J

It is turning interesting. Traditionally Mosambi is supposed to be Citrus limetta

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_limetta

This according to The Plant List is a synonym of C. medica

GRIN accepts C. limetta as distinct species but names used are Sweet lime and sweet lemon, no Mosambi name is mentioned.
Useful Plants of India (CSIR) treats Mosambi as C. sinensis

I did reply to this question in details a while back but it may have got lost. I’ll try to give as good an answer again.
First this is a cultivar of C. sinensis. As has been pointed out already several times by various people this week, the problems stem from the fact that most academics treat plants at a specific level, ignoring anything sub-specific sometimes, sub-variety nearly all the time. Due to the mixing of old names with the new, the name gets first attached to a species, then to another because it is a synonym or by mistake – yes experts make mistakes sometimes. When one goes back in time the origin may be a cultivar name as is the case here. Added to the botanical confusion is the linguistic confusion. Mosambi becomes Mausambee, Mōsāmbī, Mōzāmbi etc. then enter the scripted names মোসাম্বি, ಮೊಸಂಬಿ, मौसम्बी , मोसम्बी , मोसाम्बी , मोज़ाम्बि , मोसंबी etc. None of these is validated.
Depending on how these names were created they may be correct or not, correct in a language not in another but using the same script. In my mind the correct name for this cultivar is: Citrus × sinensis (L.) Osbeck ‘Mosambi‘ Therefore matching it with simply the species Citrus × sinensis (L.) Osbeck is not completely wrong.
It may well be that the name Mosambi is applied to some other species in some parts of India but it has to be displayed next to the name in order to avoid perpetuating the confusion. I will leave this with you all to comment on and give you the picture as I see it now at the end of the week, Perhaps by then you will have changed my mind.

ref. CHAPTER 3 – The Botany of Citrus and Its Wild Relatives BY WALTER T. SWINGLE
Revised by Phillip C. Reece < http://lib.ucr.edu/agnic/webber/Vol1/Chapter3.html >.
CHAPTER 4 – Horticultural Varieties of Citrus BY ROBERT WILLARD HODGSON
< http://lib.ucr.edu/agnic/webber/Vol1/Chapter4.html >. as complements to The Citrus Industry
Revised Edition, University of California, Division of Agricultural Sciences, based on above, 1967-1989 . < http://lib.ucr.edu/agnic/webber/Vol1/Vol1TOC.html >.

Rutaceae Week: Citrus sinensis “Valensia Orange” from California:
Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck “Valensia Orange”
A popular orange in USA, also known as Murcia orange is commonly used for extracting juice and as table fruit. Photographed from California.

Valencia is the correct spelling. “Valensia” is found on the internet but is not correct.

Valencia is both a cultivar name and a group name. Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck is still valid, Citrus ×sinensis (L.) Osbeck is the new name after Mabberley’s classification.
Citrus ×sinensis (L.) Osbeck ‘Valencia‘
Citrus ×sinensis (L.) Osbeck (Valencia Group) ‘Dom João‘
ref. Jorma Koskinen, 2006 – 2011, Citrus Pages.

Good to have such fruiting trees at arm’s length in the garden.

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Rutaceae Week: Citrus sinensis :Navel Orange” from California:
Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck “Navel Orange”

Such fruits have generally the growth of second fruit at apex which protrudes like a human navel. The skin peels off more easily than other members of this species, and are commonly used as table fruit, though less juicy.

Photographed from California.

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Rutaceae Week : Citrus Fruit for ID : Oman : 110512 : AK-1:
Fruits bought from a fruit vendor, grown locally, on the 29th of October,11.

The size of our common Mosambi, outer cover very thin.

Fruits very juicy, sweet with a slight taste of lemon but not sour.
Any clues?

I think this is Lime, Kagaji neebu

I think yes Citrus aurantifolia

Thanks for the id but the taste is very sweet & fruit much bigger in size.

In that case consider Malta, Citrus sinensis, which is sweet, pulm whitish and rind thinner.

Rutaceae Week, follow-up, “Names of Plants in India”, 1st instalment:
It is hard to choose where to start for there is not really a beginning and no end in sight. Chinese people have a saying “Every long journey starts with a tiny step”.
So here is first what has been the big revelation for me. Hidden behind some links in one of Dinesh’s postings was what some of you had proposed / wished for and that I was also waiting for. The initial building of an amazing database called “Names of Plants in India”. It does not display the basic info for such a site so a review cannot yet be written about it. I have written one nevertheless that will appear online when I have all the details. It is however fully operational and can be used. I warmly invite you to consult it … and yes it has got photos! The URL is < https://sites.google.com/site/indiannamesofplants/ >.
Now just a couple of entries calling for further feedback from you all.
We all know that the name “Mosambi” is used for other taxa (plants). We will come back to it when we treat these species. I believe the following to be the original vernacular.
Citrus × sinensis (L.) Osbeck ‘Mosambi‘
BENGALI : মোসাম্বি (Mōsāmbi).
ENGLISH : Mosambi orange, Mosambique orange.
HINDI : मौसम्बी Mausambee, मोसम्बी Mōsambī , मोसाम्बी Mōsāmbī, मोज़ाम्बि Mōzāmbi
KANNADA : ಮೊಸಂಬಿ ಹಣ್ಣು Mosambi hannu ?
MARATHI : मोसंबी Mosambi.
TAMIL : சாத்துக்குடி Cāttukkuṭi ?
TELUGU : బత్తాయి పండు Battāyi paṇḍu.
“Fruit medium-large, slightly oblate to globose or broadly obovoid; areolar ring regularly shallow; moderately seedy. Color light yellow to pale orange at maturity. Rind medium-thick; surface moderately to roughly pebbled, and faintly striped with narrow, longitudinal grooves and ridges. Flesh color straw-yellow; somewhat firm, juicy; flavor insipid because of very low acidity. Early in maturity.
This very distinctive variety is of unknown origin, but the name, of which there are numerous spellings, suggests that it was taken from Mozambique, East Africa, to India, presumably by the Portuguese. The brown color of the chalazal spot indicates that it does not belong to the sugar orange group, as some have assumed, but that it is a low acid orange, the acidity of which is further reduced by the Indian climate and the rough lemon rootstock on which it is grown.
Mosambi is highly popular in central India and is probably the most important orange variety of that country. According to Gandhi (1956), it is grown principally in the Bombay Deccan where total plantings were reported to be about 20,000 acres.”R. W. Hodgson in Chapter 4 of Horticultutal Varieties of Citrus.
What we need now is validation of those names – spelling… and a photo or two, and some clarification.
If this is the Batavian orange, Cattukkuti orange, Loose-jacket orange, Sylhet orange, can it be బత్తాయి Battāyi, బత్తాయి నరింమ్జాపండు (Battāyi narimmjāpaṇḍu) Battāyi nāriṃzapaṇḍu ? We know it is not sweet but is it bitter at all ? could it be called a mandarine ?
Citrus × sinensis (L.) Osbeck ‘Malta‘
ENGLISH : Malta orange.
HINDI : माल्टा Malta (mālṭā). -> correct spelling ?
It may be difficult to find all these names in dictionaries but there is enough expertise in the group to work out what is correct and to validate it.

One observation. In my view the English transliteration of சாத்துக்குடி is Saattukudi or Sāttukudi. Tamil speaking members in the group ( Dr. …, Dr. …, etc.) may please comment on my observation.

In Tamil, சis correctly pronounced ‘cha’, and ஸas ‘sa’.http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Tamil/Tamil_Script
So, for சாத்துக்குடி, ‘chattukkudi’ is the correct spelling. For ‘Sattukudi’ it has to be written as ‘ஸாத்துக்குடி‘ which is not the case here.

I have posted (new) the amended list of names for Mosambi, taking into account all the answers in this posting. Please do not be offended when I say that there is no right or wrong answer. Some transcriptions are absolutely more correct than all the others. In this case Chattukkudi is IT. However, as we keep all old and invalid botanical synonyms matched to the correct preferred botanical name for ref. purposes and for tracking down errors made in the past, we have to do a similar thing with vernacular names. If anyone has to be blamed it is the authors who have been using transcriptions only and all the foreigners who have taken these as gospel and not always copied those names correctly. Modern devices such as converters / transliterators can help greatly in recovering scripted names but they can also confused the issues because they do not use the same standards of transliteration. Hence the need for us all to sort all these names. Sorry for the long explanation.

Rutaceae Week, follow-up, “Names of Plants in India”, 2d instalment:
Thank you to our expert Tamil speakers. We are progressing a little. So below is the amended list of names for the Mosambi cultivar.
In this applied linguistics one cannot say that a transliteration is wrong or correct. It depends on how a word is arrived at, be it in scripted form of romanized form. However in some cases one match is definitely better than most. This is the case here. I display the not so good transcriptions because they are found in many publications. When one does a computer search one can miss a good name if it has only been searched in 2 or 3 of its less correct forms and the compiler has only posted the correct transcription. With this method one covers (hopefully) all possibilities. The preferred, correct, transcription is in bold so that the reader is in no doubt. In parenthesis are the alternate, less correct transcriptions.
Citrus × sinensis (L.) Osbeck ‘Mosambi‘
BENGALI : মোসাম্বি (Mōsāmbi).
ENGLISH : Mosambi orange, Mosambique orange.
HINDI : मौसम्बी Mausambee, मोसम्बी Mōsambī , मोसाम्बी Mōsāmbī, मोज़ाम्बि Mōzāmbi
KANNADA : ಮೊಸಂಬಿ ಹಣ್ಣು Mosambi hannu ?
MARATHI : मोसंबी Mosambi.
TAMIL : சாத்துக்குடி Chattukkudi (Cāttukkuṭi , Saattukudi, Sāttukudi).
TELUGU : బత్తాయి పండు Battāyi paṇḍu.
Could we found an Assamese name and a Gujarati name?

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ANSEPT21 Please identify this fruit : 6 posts by 5 authors. Attachments (2).
Coorg- road to Abbey falls
August 2014

It looks like Citrus maxima

Thanks …To me it doesn’t look Citrus maxima; can be Citrus sinensis.

Citrus leaf is not very clear. it is difficult to say which var. without having a clear photo of leaf.

Yes C. sinensis is more likely. Fruit shape and much narrower petiole wings suggest that.

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Citrus For ID : Delhi : 040713 : AK-1 : Attachments (2). 1 post by 1 author.

Citrus fruits seen at the Garden of Five Senses, Delhi on 6/12/2012.
A small, cultivated tree.

I think it is Chakotar Citrus maxima.

Citrus maxima/ grandis usually have broadly winged petioles.

Citrus sinensis I hope

Thanks for the id and corrections.

Saw your recent post on Citrus.

This would be Citrus sinensis only as suggested by you earlier?
Can you please validate?

I think yes, looking at leaves.

Thanks for the prompt reply. I take this as Citrus sinensis.

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Scientific names of Citrus spp.. (mixed thread): 11 posts by 3 authors. 2 correct images as above.

i have a confusion regarding names of some Citrus species. many sites and Wikipedia says Scientifc name of Musambi is Citrus limetta but according to eflora of Pakistan its a cultivar of Citrus sinensis Taxon Page. We also call malta as Citrus sinensis. What is the accurate scientific name for musambi? Thankyou

there are other species. kindly mention if i am wrong for some citrus species

1. Kinnow/santra is Cirtus reticulata

2. khatta/khatti is Citrus aurantium (Bitter orange)

3. Meetha is Citrus aurantifolia

4. Gulgul is Citrus medica

5. Chakotra is Citrus maxima

6. Malta is Citrus sinensis

7. Narangi is Citrus microcarpa (its fruit size is small 2-3 cm and used mostly as ornamental)
Thankyou for your consideration

1. Yes Santra is C. reticulata, but Kinnow is a hybrid of ‘King’ (Citrus nobilis) × ‘Willow Leaf’ (Citrus × deliciosa) and be correctly be written as Citrus nobilis x Citrus deliciosa, sometimes cited as C. reticulata, but this does not sound good especially when both parents are well recognised species, it can’t be placed under third C. reticulata
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinnow
2. Khatta/Khatti should be C. jhambiri also placed as Citrus sinensis subsp. jambhiri (Lush.) Engl.
Citrus aurantium subsp. jambhiri Engl., but now Citrus taitensis
https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_taitensis

3. C. aurantifolia I hope is Kagzi nimbu, Mitha or Meetha should be C. limetta, sometimes placed as Citrus × limon (L.) Osbeck ‘Limetta‘

4. Galgal is Citrus pseudolimon

5. Chakotra is Citrus grandis (syn: Citrus maxima).

6. Malta is Citrus sinensis, yes

7. For Narangi and others please look for these posts

https://groups.google.com/indiantreepix/Khatti$20CitrusQwJ

https://groups.google.com/indiantreepix/NarangDUJ

Thank you so much sir. i will share some photos and what is the scientific name for musambi?

Should be same C. limetta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_limetta

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Citrus limetta : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (4)
Thank you Sir. These are some photos of Meetha and musambi here in my area.. the first four photos are of meetha ………… Thanks a lot for your guidance.

Mitha or Meetha should be C. limetta, sometimes placed as Citrus × limon (L.) Osbeck ‘Limetta‘

As per discussions at Citrus sinensis, Dr. Porcher calls it as Citrus × sinensis (L.) Osbeck ‘Mosambi‘

I think C. limetta is more widely used name

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Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck : 5 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (5)

Location: Nagarkot, Nepal

Date: 3 April 2018

Altitude: 6000 ft.

Habit: Cultivated

Nepali Name : मौसमी Mausamee

CoL ????

Is it possible to confirm the species based on these images without fruits?

Garden owner said so. Need to wait for fruits for a couple of months !

OK and thanks

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Date: 03 August 2019
Same plant !
Attachments (1)

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Botanical name of mosambi – efloraofindia | Google Groups

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Fruits & Vegetables Week: Citrus sinensis, naval orange:
Citrus sinensis, navel orange, also known as the Washington, Riverside, or Bahia navel. This seedless fruit was a result of mutation, the mutation causes the orange to develop a second orange at the base of the original fruit, opposite the stem, as a conjoined twin in a set of smaller segments embedded within the peel of the larger orange. From the outside, it looks similar to the human navel, hence its name. Being sterile and seedless, it can be propagated only by grafting it on other hardy varieties. Because the mutation left the fruit seedless, and therefore sterile, the only means available to cultivate more of this new variety is to graft cuttings onto other varieties of citrus tree.

– Slight correction, it is Navel (not naval) orange

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Citrus medica L. ??? : 5 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (5)

Location : Tatopani, Pokhara, Nepal
Date : 12 April 2017

Elevation : 5000 ft.

Not C.medica. Looks like sour pomelo, Citrus megaloxycarpa Lush., which is a suspected hybrid, involving C.medica and C.maxima and any other? as putative parents.

Thank you … However, it could be introduced as not listed in Nepal.

Taking it as Citrus × aurantium L. as per images and details herein and as per synonyms following POWO, due to petiole marginate or narrowly winged.

It is not sour orange plant. In sour orange, leaves are ovate -elliptic and has broad petiolar wings. May be lemon…..

I am afraid it does not look like it.

Kindly send the close up of leaves and twigs for proper identification.

I am talking in border sense as is being followed in POWO (Included as per POWO: Citrus × aurantium L.: Sour orange, Khatta; Citrus × reticulata Blanco: Orange, Santra; Citrus × sinensis (L.) Osbeck: Sweet orange, Musambi etc.)

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Another photo : 7 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (1)- 4 MB.

Again a photo of Grapefruit.

It is a species of Citrus (Lemon) not grapefruit

but i ate its fruits last year and hopefully this time also to get some more

The plant here is Citrus only, I have citrus plant in my house, and know grapes flowers, I know both

On search in efi site, I found grapefruit to be a citrus species only.

Yes, it is. It is cross between Sweet Orange and Pamelo.

I mistook it as Grape (Vitis vinifera), it is the problem with common names, you are correct, few species of citrus also called grapefruit

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Citrus limon ‘Variegata from Delhi-GSDEC01/01 : 1 post by 1 author. Attachments (2)

Citrus limon ‘variegata’

Cultivar of lemon with variegated leaves and fruits.
Photographed from Tourism Festival, Garden of Five Senses Delhi in February 2015

I feel it may be variegated Citrus japonica as per
https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.273471&isprofile=0&
https://www.cfgphoto.com/photo-77266.htm
https://wikimedia.Citrus_japonica_Centennial_Variegated.jpg
https://idtools.org/id/citrus/citrusid/factsheet.php?name=Variegated%20Calamondin

C. japonica fruit is never larger than 3 cm, here it is more than 8 cm (compare with leaf size). This is C. limetta ‘Variegata’, variegated Sweet lime or Mousambhi. (C. limon would have elongated fruit). I am sharing with label.
1 high res. image.

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Rutaceae Week : Mosambi variegated : Mumbai : 140512 : AK-1:
Seen this Mosambi fruit Bonsai at a Bonsai Show in Maharashtra Nature Park, Mumbai on the 6th of April,12.
Fruit as well as leaves are variegated.
Botanical name please.

did you have pic of the entire plant?
This is Citrofotunella microcarpa cv variegata or variegated calomondin
The leaves and immature fruit will both be variegated, the fruit takes on normal citrus color when larger and ripens.
I would love to see how this developed as a bonsai… and will the maker willing to sell one cutting?

These are all the pictures I have clicked.

In any case, the plant was not too large…all the Bonsai were kept on tables, and I saw it at eye level.

Most were from personal collections.

I will check from the Dy Director of the park, if he has some more pictures, also if there is a Bonsai Club where we can get in touch.

Some other smaller ones were on sale.
I will keep in mind and if I get further info, will get back to you.

As I have the word “Mosambi” still ringing in my ears your postings remind me that even on this single name we have some work left to do. It is beginning to look like “Mosambi” is used in India as a general name for a number of Citrus fruits, a kind of generic name.
Usha di has correctly identified the fruit; it is a Variegated calamondin.There are several cultivars of this type. They all fall into the cultigroup Variegata. For simplification we will just call it the (Variegata group). So I would say the fruit in the pictures is likely to be: X Citrofortunella microcarpa (Bunge) Wijnands (Variegata Group) ‘Tiger‘
Please let me know if you know some other variegated cultivars. Calamondins are sometimes confused with round cumquats but have more in common with mandarines. They flower at the same time for instance (in spring) while cumquats flower in early summer (not sure how this works out in India, depends on the climatic region where the plant is grown). Calamondin looks like a miniature mandarin(e) with loose skin when ripe. Perhaps this explains why it is called “Mosambi”. I am told that although this fruit does not taste like much, a decent marmalade can be made with it. As the photos demonstrate it is an attractive ornamental plant.

Many thanks for confirming the id and extra information on my post.

Actually I don’t know how to address you as.

Don’t know of any more variegated cultivars…but if I come across, will definitely share on our group.

On searching the net, Mosambi seems to be Sweet Lime.
These are yellowish in color unlike orange color as in ‘Oranges’, sweet in taste, used to extract juice. I hope this helps.

I feel it may be variegated Citrus japonica as per
https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.PlantFinderDetails=0&
https://www.cfgphoto.com/photo-77266.htm
https://commons.Citrus_japonica_Centennial_Variegated.jpg
https://idtools.org/id/citrus/citrusid/factsheet.php?name=Variegated%20Calamondin

Sweet orange…. Citrus sinensis…… It. chimera/ mutant of normal sweet orange.

Variegated Mousambi C. limetta ‘Variegata’

Fortunella japonica…. Round kumaquat… According to recent citrus clasification of Tanaka. it is comes into Fortunella genera based on no.of locules/ ovary and small leaves and fruit

Fruits of Fortunella japonica (syn: Citrus japonica) are never longer than 1 inch, and are mostly oblong.

Aggreed with your observation. However, it is Variegated sweet orange…. Citrus sinensis.

Citrus x myrtifolia from California-GS02092023-2: 4 high res. images.
Citrus x myrtifolia (Risso) Reider, often treated as a variety of C. x aurantium or a cultivar ‘Chinotto’, photographed from Fremont, California.