M.I.C.

A 2012 forum post relays a Southeastern Palms article attributing M.I.C. to Dr. John Brown of Texas and describing it as a complex hybrid. Later accounts likewise credit Brown and propose a [CiTemple Edible × Ichang papeda] × Minneola pedigree. The magazine article was not accessed, and no original breeding record, exact parental accessions, or propagation link to current M.I.C. material has been verified. Conditionally, that reported pedigree yields an estimated 25% grapefruit, 31.25% mandarin, 25% papeda, 12.5% Poncirus, and 6.25% sweet orange, assuming equal parental contributions and using the linked CiTemple 'Edible' selection’s separate pedigree-based estimate (Temple Tangor × Poncirus); these percentages are estimates, not a measured genotype, and do not prove that current M.I.C. material matches the reported pedigree.^{⁠[4]⁠[1]⁠[2]⁠[3]}

Ross-supplied M.I.C. fruit in The Mulberries’ tasting was at color break and less ripe than NuClem. Its final card gives 57 g and 10.5 °Bx; the presenter described juicy, tender, seeded fruit with complex mandarin flavor and almost no bitterness. The ripeness difference limits a direct flavor comparison, and the results describe the supplied sample.^⁠[1]

Cold reports remain indirect and site-specific. A 2012 forum post relays a magazine estimate of survival around 15°F, but gives no exposure, duration, injury outcome or conditions behind the estimate. The Mulberries presenter discusses Satsuma-like protection and brief cold dips; his estimates and reports of other trees dying are not measured hardiness trials. He also says M.I.C. seedlings appear true to type in his experience, without a quantified progeny test. A greenhouse forum post concerns a seedling believed to come from M.I.C., which does not verify that seedling as the same clone.^{⁠[4]⁠[1]⁠[3]}