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World of CitrusWorld of CitrusFairchild Mandarin
University of California, Riverside — Citrus Variety Collection
https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc3559 (opens in a new tab)
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Citrus Genome Database
https://www.citrusgenomedb.org/Analysis/8458825 (opens in a new tab)
Genome resource reviewed against the CGD assembly record and existing variety identity. CGD identifies the sequenced material as Fairchild. This is a cultivar-level match; the record does not establish that a particular accession or tree represented here was sequenced.
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Tough Citrus · YouTube · 2025-01-27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRz__9Avz1Q (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: English auto-generated captions reviewed from 0:00–37:53 of the 37:58 video. At 18:59–19:23, the speaker identifies a Fairchild fruit and describes it as thin-skinned, very orange, and juicy. The speaker is not identified in the caption export; fruit count, harvest date, precise tree location, and measurement method are unstated.
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USDA APHIS Identification Technology Program (IDtools), Citrus ID Edition 2
https://idtools.org/citrus_id/index.cfm?packageID=1179&entityID=8543 (opens in a new tab)
Citrus ID Edition 2 entity 8543; page footer October 2011, with no named page author. Its keyed description lists orange flesh and rind colors from yellow through red-orange, and cites Hodgson for separate tree and fruit notes. The page reproduces Hodgson’s account of the 1964 release and Clementine × Orlando cross; cross-pollination is reported as a suggestion pending further facts.
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Thomas Osborne, MD · TastyLandscape · 2014-02-15
https://tastylandscape.com/2014/02/15/fairchild-mandarin-delicious-seedy/ (opens in a new tab)
Personal Southern California garden account; no UCR accession, tree age, or controlled sample protocol is specified. Reports fruit about 3 inches in diameter, with 2–4 seeds per section, and personal observations of color, peelability by harvest period, and a November–March season. Pollinator advice is explicitly secondhand and untested by the author.
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mrtexas · Citrus Growers Forum archive · 2006-10-17
http://citrusgrowersstatic.chez.com/web/viewtopicbbc7.php (opens in a new tab)
Single forum post about the author’s own Fairchild and Seedless Kishu trees on Flying Dragon rootstock. He reports the first fruit after three years in the ground and says he grew the rootstock and grafted the scions; the post later calls Fairchild good but seedy. Earlier immature/pale/weak wording is grammatically about both trees and is not treated as Fairchild-specific.
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archstanton / archstanton_gw · Houzz Discussions
https://www.houzz.com/discussions/1810389/favorite-late-ish-season-mandarin (opens in a new tab)
Community discussion with relative post-age labels only, so exact post dates are unavailable. The original post gives a secondhand expectation that Fairchild performs well in desert areas as an early-season mandarin. A commenter identifying Indio reports picking his own Fairchild fruit for a local shelter and describes it as comparatively boring; no sample count, harvest date, or measurement is given.
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Isaac A. Diaz et al. · bioRxiv · 2024-01-24
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.20.575729v1 (opens in a new tab)
Version 1 preprint, not certified by peer review. Sampling methods identify greenhouse-grown Fairchild mandarin (Citrus reticulata), accession PI 539508, inventory RIV 2014 PL, from the Givaudan Citrus Variety Collection at UC Riverside; young leaves were collected for genome sequencing and expression/chromatin analyses. Molecular-genomics study only; it does not report horticultural or fruit traits.
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