Orange Varieties

Common oranges

Common oranges (also called "white", "round", or "blond" oranges) constitute about
two-thirds of all the orange production. The majority of this crop is used mostly
for juice extraction.[19][21]
Valencia
Main article: Valencia orange
An orange grove in Florida

The Valencia orange is a late-season fruit, and
navel oranges are out of season. This is why an
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Hart's Tardiff Valencia
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Thomas Rivers, an English nurseryman, imported this variety from the Azores Islands
and catalogued it in 1865 under the name Excelsior. Around 1870, he provided trees
to S. B. Parsons, a Long Island nurseryman, who in turn sold them to E. H. Hart of
Federal Point, Florida.[45]
Hamlin

This cultivar was discovered by A. G. Hamlin near Glenwood, Florida, in 1879. The
fruit is small, smooth, not highly colored, and juicy, with a pale yellow colored
juice, especially in fruits that come from lemon rootstock. The fruit may be
seedless, or may contain a number of small seeds. The tree is high-yielding and
cold-tolerant and it produces good quality fruit, which is harvested from October
to December. It thrives in humid subtropical climates. In cooler, more arid areas,
the trees produce edible fruit, but too small for commercial use.[15]

Trees from groves in hammocks or areas covered with pine forest are budded on sour
orange trees, a method that gives a high solids content. On sand, they are grafted
on rough lemon rootstock.[8] The Hamlin orange is one of the most popular juice
oranges in Florida and replaces the Parson Brown variety as the principal early-
season juice orange. This cultivar is now[needs update] the leading early orange in
Florida and, possibly, in the rest of the world.[15]