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Laaz
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hoosierquilt
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Sour variegated orange? With weird, rough rind due to variegation?? Do we have any Japanese forum members who can do a better translation job than Google Translator??
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Radoslav
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This citrus is sometimes called: 地球柑（ちきゅうかん） - "chi kyu kan" or "ti kyu kan"
correct name:
citrus aurantium shimadaidai シマダイダイ
nice pictures:
http://park.geocities.jp/yat5aze2/hana/ti/tikyuukan.html
just type シマダイダイ to the google and you will see a lot of nice pictures  |
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Sylvain
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MarcV
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Yet another "must-have"! 
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Sanguinello
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How tastes that ?
Very bitter ?
There is a legend in Japan, that you get very old, if you eat that fruit ... |
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Millet
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Sanguiello, you hit it directly on the nose, when you wrote..."How taste that?" Its the exact question when it comes to any of these citrus varieties. When choosing a citrus tree, I give little notice to how rare the tree, how strange the fruit, how colored the pulp, or how variegated or not. The only concern is taste. If the fruit's taste is up to the standard of the palette, it finds a nice home in which to flourish, if not, its out to the compost pile. Some exception can be given if the tree is named after one of the great Saints.- Millet |
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Sanguinello
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Well ...
You are just into the taste ... for me the ornamental value is also relevant ...
For example that striped blood orange hits my interest and I would like it also if the taste is less good as the known Moro and Torocco ...
Just if this Japanese Varity is inedible bitter, it would be also not one of my favs ...
At all for I have little space and need to choose carefully which I give the little precious space ... |
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Laaz
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If it was only about good taste I would go to the grocery store.
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Millet
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The problem with the store, is that such a small choice of citrus varieties are offered for sale. Washigton Navel, Valencia, Moro for a week or so, lemon, lime, minelloa, plus clementines, clementines, clementines, clementines, and yet more clementines. If I lived in California with unlimited space than the story could be different, but I live in Colorado.- Millet |
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Radoslav
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| Laaz wrote: | | If it was only about good taste I would go to the grocery store. |
You right, taste is important, but here is also a big tradition to have citrus tree for its ornamental value. Just look at the famous Medicea collection. Mostly lemons, sour oranges, lumias etc. - clearly more focused to various fruit shape, than taste.
Not too many people grown tulips or roses as a food 
http://www.homecitrusgrowers.co.uk/citrusplaces/poggio.html
But Millet has his truth also  , I prefer to collect as much citrus varieties as possible, to obtain maximum number of taste variants - I'm talking about good taste. |
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Sanguinello
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grad85
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I have a little Dai Dai with 2 first small fruit,they are deforming now.
By a Canaliculata you see the deforming in a much earlier state.
DAi Dai
Canaliculata
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Sanguinello
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Thanx for that pics !
Well, that is interesting, but surely you know, that there are a lot of forms of Canalculata.
At some you see no "canale" at all even.
Some have some curb somewhere and many irregualry ribs .
The extreme is Consolei, which has enormous and deformed ribs, sometimes even in different coulors as an obviously Chimera (Baches).
So I am not sure if there is some driect relations between that asian species to our european or not. |
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