Fresh fruit is also imported into Canada and noncitrus Juice to improve color or sold as single strength tangerine In these countries deeply colored juice is blended with orange Of the crop is canned as fruit segments or juice in Japan, China, and While this fruit is grown primarily for fresh consumption, a portion Type to be grown in the southern parts of the states bordering the However, occasional severeįreezes have reduced satsuma acreage. Trees were imported from Japan and planted throughout the lower GulfĬoast states from the northern Florida Gulf coast to Texas, where anĮxtensive tangerine industry developed. Kyushu Island, where it is believed to have originated.ĭuring the period 1908-1911, approximately a million 'Owari' satsuma Valkenberg, who sent trees home in 1878 from Satsuma, the name of aįormer province, now Kagoshima Prefecture, on the southern tip of The name "satsuma" isĬredited to the wife of a United States minister to Japan, General Van The first recorded introduction into the United States Reported in Japan more than 700 years ago, where it is now the majorĬultivar grown. Satsuma mandarin may have originated in China, but it was first 'Owari' is the primary satsuma cultivar commercially grown inįlorida, but 'Brown Select', 'Early St. Pollinations over many years has resulted in a collection of over 100Ĭultivars that differ in date of maturity, fruit shape, color, and Selection of slight mutations and seedlings from controlled
Japan where climatic conditions are favorable for the production ofĮarly ripening satsuma tangerines of high quality.
The world's largest satsuma industry is located in southern South America, and on a small scale in central California and northernįlorida. Korea, Turkey, along the Black Sea in Russia, southern South Africa, Grown in cool subtropical regions of Japan, Spain, central China, In most citrus producing areas, satsuma mandarin is the preferred name, but satsuma tangerine is also used.
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