New variety Clemensoon, "first of the season"

The firm Anecoop has patented a new clementine variety which, due to its extra early harvest time, has been named Clemensoon.

The variety has been studied for more than 10 years. After being closely monitored by Anecoop at La Masía del Doctor, in the Valencian town of Museros, Spain, and matched with data from other locations, Francisco Borrás, Anecoop's commercial director, says that "we can confirm that it is the best early harvest clementine so far."

After its first year in the market, Francisco affirms that the Clemensoon "has had great success," therefore, 25 cooperatives partnered with Anecoop are already producing it.

Some of the main qualities of Clemensoon are:

Precocity: extra early ripening, as it can be harvested from early September until the end of October. Colour and peeling: the peel presents an intense orange-reddish colour, very attractive, with a soft consistence and light adherence, making it easy to peel. Pulp and juice: the pulp's colour is orange, with an excellent taste and a good amount of juice. Calibre: it presents optimal calibres with a high degree of homogeneity. Organoleptic qualities: its flavour, aroma and colour are magnificent. It has very thin membranes between segments, making it easy to eat. Post-harvest: the common procedures for clementine degreening can also be applied to Clemensoon to obtain the desired commercial colour. Productivity: it is a very productive clementine and of precocious entry in production. The flowering is abundant and the production regular, so no further treatments are needed.

"Since its production and commercialisation are handled by Anecoop, any problems of excess seen in other varieties will be avoided, which will help in its future profitability," affirms Francisco Borrás.

According to data from the Valencian Institute for Agricultural Research (IVIA), 35 different varieties are commercialised with a certain degree of success. Given this range of varieties, commercial and consumer expectations ought to be met; however, in the initial stage of the citrus season, and taking mandarins also into consideration, there are needs in the market ranging from more precocity to an improvement in the qualities of the fruit harvested before the Clemenules. The Clemensoon aims to fill this commercial gap.


For more information:
Carlota Pardo (Communication manager)
Anecoop S. Coop.
Tel: +34 96 393 85 58
cpardo@anecoop.com
www.anecoop.com

Interesting !

My thought while reading the report on Clemensoon, was..."That's what the industry needs, still yet another Clementine" (kind of like...Oh look there is another WalMart store going up). To me all clementines look and taste pretty much the same. There is getting to be so many varieties of citrus in the world, that it is going to take something extra extra extra special to get the attention of the buying public. The last citrus variety to get the public's attention was the small clementines that came out years ago. Now they have beat the poor fruit to death. - Millet

the last ???

the original clementine is a seedling of a meridian mandarine crossed with sevilla orange and it came out 100 years ago ..

Sanguinello, I know all about how the Clementine was discovered growing in a citrus grove at a Catholic orphanage in Algeria . However, they did not hit the American market until 7-10+ years ago.- Millet

LOL ...

Sorry it was in the garden of a Catholic Orphanity in Oran, Algeria.
The headmaster was Padre Clement and the fruit got named after him ..

Only since few years in USA ?
That´s funny, for it was sent to all the world, even to Japan instantly and in europe it extincted almost the wonderful meridian mandarine.

Gosh, Millet. I had no idea the Clementine was so new to the USA market. Very interesting!

Thank you Sanguinello, I changed Morocco to Algeria. I knew that the original Clementine was called Algerian Clementine, I must have had a senior moment when writing my above post. Pretty soon they will have enough Clementine varieties developed to be able to sell a new variety on the market for each week of the year. Again thanks for correcting my error. - Millet

Well, in North Africa and Spain already hundreds of Clementines have been developed.
At all 2 breeding lines.
Therefore they could present a version new to you every day even ...

Well, it was discovered in Misserghin 21 km south west of Oran. It was not in a garden nor a citrus grove but growing freely in a public dump.

Yes, Silvain, I also know that story ... but I was assured by my friends in Ageria, that the version I told is true ...

Indeed!
And how old were your friends in 1895?

I never asked them ..
Anyways I think the local people know the true story.

Besides, if it is about a Christian origin of a kinda national fruit in an arabian/muslim country ...

... and of the still behated french colonists ...

Sanguinello are you intentionally trying to start a fight? Maybe you need a vacation?