Fairchild Mandarin Budwood

Citrus reticulata.

Clementine mandarin x Orlando tangelo.

Fairchild trees are vigorous with a wide-spreading habit. For best fruit production, a pollinator is necessary. The fruit is medium-sized, oblate in shape, and has a thin, slightly pebbled, dark orange rind. Fairchild is not especially easy to peel and the fruits typically contain many seeds, but the flesh is quite juicy and the flavor is rich and sweet.

Fruit medium in size and moderately blate in form; rind medium-thin, moderately adherent but easily peelable; surface texture smooth; color deep orange.  Flesh orange-colored; firm but tender and juicy; flavor rich and sweet.  Seeds numerous, small, and polyembryonic.  Early in maturity (about like Clementine but colors earlier).

Tree vigorous, broad-spreading with dense foliage, nearly thornless, and productive.

Rootstocks of accession:  Carrizo citrange, C-35 citrange.

Season of ripeness at Riverside, California:  Early-mid season maturing, early-late December.

Prepared by the Givaudan Citrus Variety Collection at The University of California Riverside.