Hello,

I saw something in a local supermarket that was called "cherry mandarin". Origin was China and the fruits were very small but looking like mandarins. No other infromation was included. Price tag was a bit high for me, over ten euros for a kilo and fruits were sold in small boxes (maybe half a kilo) so I couldn't buy just one or two. So I decided not to buy for now. Does anybody know what species and/or variety this might be?

Jari

Could be this one, but what is it?
http://dynasty.21food.com/showroom/29374/product/Cherry-mandarin.html

Kishu Mandarin

Citrus kinokuni?

Out of curiosity I bought one box of these today. I remembered wrong, it's "Cherry oranges - mini mandarins of China" what it says on the label. What else it says in small print is this: "Product variety: Citrus kinokuni ex Tanaka." So there's the answer to my question (and Gaia-project was right), I just didn't notice it on first time. It also says there that the name Cherry Oranges is a trademark of Uniagro and that made me find this site:
http://www.uniagro.ch/en/products.html?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=107&category_id=27

Quite nice flavor, very sweet, but the price (over 10 euros per kilo) is much too high. Unfortunately the ones I have eaten so far have been totally seedless, would have been fun to try growing these.

(Edit: I don't understand why it says "ex Tanaka" since to me it looks like Tanaka is the guy who named the species, not a cultivar name)

I have find this tanegine in France, last year, with the name 'Cherry Orange'. Little fruits and nice flavor. I have this species in my collection since 2 or 3 years but to small to fruiting.

I have a Kishu mandarin that s loaded with excellent fruit. Every one that has tasted the fruit would like to have a kishu plant. It looks like the one that is marketed cherry orange.

Eventually I found three seeds in the 300g box. One seed unfortunately got some damage from my teeth, but the other two look okay. I'm going to sow them and see what happens.

Kishu is the japanese name of Kinokuni.