Avana Tardivo Di Ciaculli Mandarin

Avana Tardivo di Ciaculli is a late-ripening selection associated with Ciaculli near Palermo. Agrumaria Corleone describes it as a spontaneous bud mutation of Avana from the middle of the last century; Slow Italy places the natural mutation in the 1940s. Neither names a discoverer or exact year. UCR’s record for CRC 4162 says it was selected for U.S. introduction in 1997 and received as budwood in 2006.^{⁠[3]⁠[4]⁠[1]}

Descriptions differ slightly: Citrus ID calls the fruit broader than long, while Slow Italy calls it flat-spherical. Accounts describe yellow to orange rind, orange flesh, and thin or leathery peel; Slow Italy reports 2–6 seeds. Harvest accounts also differ: UCR says January–March in Riverside, Slow Italy gives January–February full maturity, and Agrumaria gives February–March in prose but February–April in its table. UCR reports Australian fruit as 6–8 weeks later than Imperial, with relatively few seeds and reduced central columns.^{⁠[2]⁠[4]⁠[1]⁠[3]}

Citrus ID describes a compact or dense, nonweeping crown. Agrumaria reports trees up to 3 m tall and fruiting 2–3 years after grafting, with good productivity after 4–5 years, without identifying a measured specimen. In one auto-dubbed grower video, the speaker attributes fruit to Avana and describes it as very sweet and easy to peel; a separate auto-captioned Italian interview describes thin peel and very juicy fruit. Those fruit samples and their growing sites were not identified.^{⁠[2]⁠[3]⁠[5]⁠[6]}