Tangerine | Clementine
The tangerine is a member of the Rutaceae family and is native to the Far East. It is similar to oranges, but is much smaller and sweeter and has a thin, soft, easy-to-remove peel.
This fruit, along with the pomelo and bitter orange, is the only one that is an original citrus fruit, while all the others are natural hybrids, resulting from spontaneous crosses between different varieties.
The clementine (Citrus × clementina Yu.Tanaka, 1954) is a hybrid between the Mediterranean mandarin and the sweet orange. The fruit resembles the tangerine: the main differences lie in the color of the flesh, which is distinctly more orange. It is also never flattened like tangerines, but always well-rounded. Like the tangerine, it is easily peeled and divided into wedges. The taste, on the other hand, is more like orange, with a perfect balance between sour and sweet, and unlike tangerine, clementine segments are almost completely seedless.