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World of CitrusWorld of CitrusAvana Tardivo Di Ciaculli Mandarin
University of California, Riverside — Citrus Variety Collection
https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc4162 (opens in a new tab)
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Citrus ID, IDtools
https://idtools.org/citrus_id/index.cfm?packageID=1179&entityID=8299 (opens in a new tab)
Citrus ID Edition 2 profile (footer: October 2011; no individual author named). It lists Avani Tardivo, Ciaculi Late and Tardivo di Ciaculli as synonyms, and cites alternative taxonomic treatments rather than establishing this accession’s pedigree. The description reports a compact or dense, nonweeping crown; fruit broader than long, yellow to orange, with smooth to slightly rough leathery rind and orange flesh. This is a secondary profile, with no stated specimen, observation location, count or measurement method. Its unscaled “acidic-sweet” wording is retained in the local research capture, not interpreted as a scored taste observation.
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Agrumaria Corleone S.p.A.
https://www.agrumariacorleone.com/en/tardivo-di-ciaculli-mandarin.html (opens in a new tab)
Agrumaria Corleone page (©2019 footer; no individual author or page publication date stated). The page attributes Avana Tardivo's appearance in Ciaculli to a spontaneous bud mutation around the middle of the last century, without naming a discoverer or exact year. It describes the fruit as ripening in February–March in prose, while its harvest-period table shows February–April. It also gives unreferenced site-specific tree-height, canopy-diameter and bearing-age descriptions. Promotional organoleptic, antioxidant and nutritional claims are not measured evidence.
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Slow Italy · 2012-01-23
Slow Italy's regional editorial account says the cultivar was discovered in the 1940s as a natural mutation of Avana mandarin; it gives neither an exact year nor a discoverer. It describes flat-spherical fruit with yellow to pale-orange rind, thin peel, aroma and 2–6 seeds, and reports January–February full maturity with sales through March. The page gives no accession, sampling method or sample count. Its “high sugar” wording is qualitative and not a Brix measurement; local source reconciliation records the differences from other accounts.
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Занятия для души · YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC16NGXM3nY (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: English auto-generated captions cover 0:00–4:38 of the 4:39 video; the page marks it auto-dubbed. The speaker reports growing a plant from a received cutting and estimates it at about 70 cm tall. She describes its mandarins as very sweet and very easy to peel. She says she brought no scales or calipers, so the reported large fruit and tree size are not measured. These are grower observations of an unidentified specimen; location, rootstock, harvest date and standardized taste testing are not given.
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Agrumaria Corleone · YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKiha6ndYO8 (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: Italian-language 9:05 interview with English auto-generated captions, covering 0:00–8:52; the transcript header and caption language do not match, so wording is an uncertain rendering. In the interview, the guest describes the peel as very thin, points out oil released from it, and characterizes its smell as enchanting (4:05–4:47). He also describes the fruit as very juicy with little residue (5:46–6:03). These are attributed interview statements without a named sample, harvest date, site or measurement method; no sensory test is reported.
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Skandiberg · Tropical Fruit Forum · 2026-02-23
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=60062.msg576517#msg576517 (opens in a new tab)
In a received-fruit post, Skandiberg reports Avana Tardivo di Ciaculli at Brix 11 and describes a zipper-peel fruit that seemed somewhat watery and perhaps overripe. This is one poster’s received-fruit report; orchard provenance and fruit count are unstated.
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