Saunt (2000) has concise descriptions of the most important of these selections. More recently, many other selections with distinctive characteristics have been made in Spain, Morocco, Corsica, and other Mediterranean basin countries. The 'Clementine' is the original selection. Fawcett's 1914 imports came in as budwood.ħ/2007, RRK: The clementines consistute a distinctive type of mandarin widely grown in the Mediterranean basin. Since Clementine is monoembryonic, it must have been imported as budwood therefore it follows that probably all of Dr.

The similarities between these two types were also noted by Trabut (1926) but 'apparently escaped the notice of Tanaka (1954), the species designation clementina.' (Hodgson, 1967).ġ986, EMN: Monoembryonic.

Chapot (1963) 'has refuted it with convinving evidence' (Hodgson, 1967), concluding that 'Clementine' is indistinguishable from and probably identical to 'Canton' mandarin. However, this was disputed by Webber (1943) and Tanaka (1954). Trabut (1902a, 1902b, 1926) concluded that the seed parent was the common 'Mediterranean' mandarin ( C. Trabut noticed the plant, selected it, and suggested the name 'Clementine' after Brother Clement (Chapot, 1963). Fawcett's #134, Florida collection, 1914.ħ/2007, RRK: 'Clementine' originated as a chance mandarin seedling in the gardens of an orphanage and so its parentage is not definitively known.

Algerian tangerine clementine