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World of CitrusWorld of CitrusAlgerian Clementine
University of California, Riverside — Citrus Variety Collection
https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc0279 (opens in a new tab)
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Citrus Genome Database
https://www.citrusgenomedb.org/Analysis/8400795 (opens in a new tab)
Genome resource reviewed against the CGD assembly record and existing variety identity. The sequenced clementine reference derives from Clemenules, a different selection from Algerian Clementine. It supports clementine comparisons without establishing the genome of this selection.
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Seattle Figs · YouTube · 2020-02-02
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HJECOT8N60 (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: Auto-generated English captions (0:00–4:11 of a 4:14 video) identify a tasting of two fresh fruits sent airtight from a mature flood-irrigated Arizona tree to Seattle. The reviewer describes one-handed peeling (1:41–2:19), juicy fruit with a few seeds (2:31–3:41), flavour as not sour (3:41) and sweet/pleasant (3:48–4:11). The captions around puffing are ambiguous; no puffing timing claim is retained. Captions are not a reliable source for a numeric seed count.
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Walter T. Swingle, T. Ralph Robinson, and E. M. Savage · United States Department of Agriculture · 1931-08
Circular No. 181. Printed pp. 8–9 (one-based PDF pp. 22 and 25) states that Trabut sent Clementine budwood to Swingle and that Swingle propagated it at Glen St. Mary, Florida; it gives 1909 for U.S. introduction. It repeats Trabut’s Granito/sour-orange parentage reputation as historical attribution, not a genetic finding.
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Philip C. Reece and Frank E. Gardner · Florida State Horticultural Society · 1959
https://journals.flvc.org/fshs/article/download/101178/97122 (opens in a new tab)
Page 49 calls Clementine the Algerian tangerine, early-maturing and high quality but rather seedy and usually shy-bearing. It reports a Clementine (female) × Orlando tangelo population of 327 seedlings, from which Robinson, Osceola, and Lee were selected; it says sour-orange inheritance in Clementine remained unresolved.
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Louis Trabut · Journal d’agriculture traditionnelle et de botanique appliquée · 1926-08
https://www.persee.fr/doc/jatba_0370-3681_1926_num_6_60_4435 (opens in a new tab)
Pages 485–487 report Trabut’s Misserghin mandarin-seedling origin and naming account, his historical Mandarin × Granito hypothesis, and first-hand Algerian-station descriptions: early, very sweet, easily detached vivid red-orange peel, mandarin-sized fruit sometimes slightly pyriform, and qualitative greater cold resistance than mandarin. These are generic historical observations without a modern clone, measured threshold, or rootstock-specific outcome.
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Tokurou Shimizu et al. · PLOS ONE · 2016-11-30
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0166969 (opens in a new tab)
For its representative A009 Clementine stock strain (accession 113161), Table 14 infers A201 Willowleaf mandarin as seed parent and A162 Sweet orange as pollen parent (0 mismatches, 100.0% matched, LOD 92.6). S1 lists only A009 stock strain, A010 Peau Fin, A011 Caffin, and A012 de Nules; none is identified as Algerian Clementine. This is generic Clementine context, not a genetic test of the catalog selection.
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Bouchra Chahidi, Mohamed El-Otmani, Camille Jacquemond, M'hamed Tijane, Abdelhamid El-Mousadik, Ikbal Srairi, and François Luro · Comptes Rendus Biologies · 2008
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1631069107003381 (opens in a new tab)
The introduction gives generic Clementine mandarin × sweet-orange and somatic-mutation context. Its Carrizo-grafted Morocco experiment tested Caffin, Nules, and Guerdane only, not Algerian Clementine; none of its fruit, plant, or molecular results is assigned to this catalog selection.
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Citrus ID
https://idtools.org/citrus_id/index.cfm?packageID=1179&entityID=8422 (opens in a new tab)
Citrus ID's Commune entry lists Algerian, Clementina Fina, Fina, and Sodea among synonyms, citing Cottin (2002). Its origin section reproduces Hodgson's account of Clementine and the historical origin debate. The page separately links UCR records for Algerian, Clementina Fina, SRA 63, and SRA 92; its broad synonym list does not establish that those accessions or clones are identical.
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Simona Fabroni et al. · Elsevier
The ScienceDirect Topics page is the retrieval route for the 2016 chapter “Nutritional Composition of Clementine Cultivars” in Nutritional Composition of Fruit Cultivars; displayed chapter-author metadata begins with Simona Fabroni and ends with Paolo Rapisarda. In “Composition of Traditional or Ancient Cultivars” (HTML paragraphs B9780124081178000076-p0035 and B9780124081178000076-p0040; printed pages not verified), the chapter says ordinary Clementine was known as Fina in Spain and Comune in Italy, and that it was introduced to Spain probably from Algeria in 1925. This is generic secondary history, not a CRC 279-specific account and not proof that Algerian and Fina accessions are identical.
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Prime Agrocitrus
https://agrocitrus.com/clementines-varieties/ (opens in a new tab)
Under its Fina Clementine entry, Prime Agrocitrus calls Fina a mid-season variety also known as Algerian Tangerine in the USA. This commercial profile supports name-level overlap only; it does not establish that UCR CRC 4011 and CRC 279, or their maintained accessions, are identical.
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Good Fruit Guide
https://goodfruitguide.co.uk/product/fina/ (opens in a new tab)
The commercial profile identifies Fina as a mid-season Clementine and says it is also known as Algerian Tangerine in the USA. It describes small-to-medium fruit with smooth, deep orange-red peel and a few seeds, and says Fina originated in Algeria and was introduced to Spain in 1925. This is a variety-level profile and does not identify UCR CRC 4011 or a specific clone.
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University of California, Riverside — Citrus Variety Collection
https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc4011 (opens in a new tab)
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sc4001992 · Tropical Fruit Forum · 2022-11-12
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=49366.0 (opens in a new tab)
Reply #1 (November 12, 2022) identifies the author's Clementine as Fina and compares it with Kiyomi; reports Fina fruit skin, seeds and texture, and the tree's slender growth. Reply #3 describes bee-exclusion practice for Clementines generally, not specifically Fina. Profile location is not established as the tree's growing location.
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Citrus ID
https://idtools.org/citrus_id/index.cfm?packageID=1179&entityID=8548 (opens in a new tab)
Citrus ID edition 2 (October 2011) identifies this entry specifically as Fina Sodea, clone DPI-123. The Chiefland Budwood Facility account describes a low-seeded Spanish Clementine that may be seedy with pollinators, gives Algeria as origin and Spain as the country of introduction, and says small fruit can be held on the tree. This record concerns DPI-123 and does not establish identity with UCR CRC 4011 or the broad Fina/Algerian name group.
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Guohong Albert Wu et al. · Nature · 2018-02-07
https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25447 (opens in a new tab)
Study-name finding: the paper uses the broader cultivar label “Clementine”; Figure 3 identifies sweet orange as male parent, and the Discussion names Willowleaf as a Clementine parent. The catalog’s Algerian Clementine record already has Willowleaf seed × Sweet Orange pollen and published support. This citation adds study-level corroboration only; the paper’s main text does not establish the sequenced accession as the exact Algerian catalog clone.
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Joseph M. Bové · Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome · 1995
https://www.fao.org/4/u5000e/U5000E06.htm (opens in a new tab)
Chapter 5, “Production of citrus clones free of virus and virus-like pathogens,” section “Production of nucellar clones.” The text explicitly lists Clementine among monoembryonic citrus types with no nucellar embryos and separately notes artificial induction of nucellar embryos in monoembryonic species. This source names Clementine generally, not Algerian Clementine or CRC 279. Its use for this catalog entry is scoped through the existing UCR CRC 279 profile, which identifies the catalog accession as the original Clementine selection; this is not a counted, accession-specific seedling-origin trial.
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