Murcott (fruit)

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Murcott
Marketing names
'Honey tangerine'
OriginFlorida
A ripe Murcott fruit

The Murcott (marketed as Honey Tangerine) is a

sweet orange hybrid.[1][2][3]

The Murcott arose out of citrus pioneer

US Department of Agriculture planting to R. D. Hoyt at Safety Harbor, Florida. Hoyt in turn gave budwood to his nephew, Charles Murcott Smith, for whom the variety was named. Smith was growing the resulting trees in 1922 at his nursery in Bayview, Pinellas County, Florida, now a neighborhood in Clearwater.[1][5]

The trees grow upright, but often have branches bent or broken by heavy fruiting at the ends.[1]

It is widely grown in Florida, where it matures from January to March. Citrus scab and alternaria fungus disease attack Murcotts.[1]

The Murcott is one parent of the Clementine-like hybrid variously called the Afourer, Nadorcott or W. Murcott cultivar, the other parent being unknown.[3][6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Murcott (Honey Tangerine)". 2018-05-09.
  2. PMID 25004231
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  3. ^ . [T]he W. Murcott mandarin is believed to be a chance zygotic seedling of Murcott tangor, itself a presumed F1 hybrid of sweet orange and an unknown mandarin.
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  5. ^ Laszlo, Pierre (2007). Citrus: a history. University of Chicago Press. p. 75.
  6. ^ "Mandarin tangerine called Nadorcott". U.S. Patent Plant #10480. Retrieved 16 April 2014.