Citrus Guide

Citrus Guide

Our Special Guide to Florida Citrus.  

These are our top selling gift fruits for shipping.  We will tell you a little bit about them and how they taste.

Honeybell Tangelos

Honeybell Tangelos

The tangelo is a citrus fruit hybrid of tangerine and pomelo or grapefruit. Sometimes referred to as honeybells, tangelos are the size of an adult fist, have a tangerine taste, and are juicy at the expense of flesh.

Tastes:  Sweet, Juicy

Navel Oranges

Navel Oranges

A sweet, usually seedless orange having at its apex a navel-like formation enclosing an underdeveloped fruit.

Tastes:  Sweet

Red Navel Oranges

Crimson Red Navel Oranges

The Red Navel Orange or Cara Cara Navel Orange is a natural mutation that occurred on a Washington navel orange tree.  Discovered in 1976 at the Hacienda Cara Cara in Valencia, Venezuela.  From Venezuela, it was brought to Florida where it is well-adapted and performs best on a sport rootstock.  Red Navels grown in Florida have a veryy deep red color similar to the Star Ruby Grapefruit.  The Red Navel is not a cross with a grapefruit and has absolutely no grapefruit flavor.  In fact, Red Navel Oranges have a lower acid content than either the Sugar navel, or the Summerfield navel we grow, giving them a sweeter, and slightly milder flavor.

Tastes: Sweeter and slightly milder than regular navels

Ruby Red Grapefruit

Ruby Red Grapefruit

The grapefruit is a subtropical citrus tree known for its sour to semi-sweet fruit, an 18th-century hybrid first bred in Barbados.

Tastes:  Sweet, Sour