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World of CitrusWorld of CitrusMinneola Tangelo
University of California, Riverside — Citrus Variety Collection
https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc3340 (opens in a new tab)
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QCTropicals · YouTube · 2023-01-14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt1Jw4uQCMc (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: An Arizona grower reported no observed tree damage during a sustained 19°F episode and separately warned that winter fruit could freeze. The grower said this was the only citrus tree on his property during its early bearing years, reported easy peeling, and described that season’s fruit as very sweet with a little tartness; these are site-specific observations.
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Nature Hills Nursery · YouTube · 2018-02-12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbUfmAuRfOk (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: Minneola is presented as a Duncan grapefruit × Dancy tangerine cross, with a characteristic neck, a mid-December California ripe period, orange flesh, and a grapefruit-orange acid/sugar flavor account.
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Countryside Citrus · YouTube · 2015-01-14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_h_OwYLJgo (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: A Florida grower presents Honeybell as Minneola, says cool fall conditions help sugar development, reports cosmetic wind scarring did not affect eating quality, and describes the fruit as notably juicy.
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jesen84 · YouTube · 2022-01-03
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovUDJabJDF0 (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: A sampled Minneola had a neck, thick firm rind that peeled fairly easily, tangy medium-sweet flavor with acidity, abundant juice, and very few seeds. The presenter estimated the mature tree at 12–15 feet and suspected, but did not identify, a semi-dwarf rootstock.
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Walter T. Swingle, T. Ralph Robinson, and E. M. Savage · United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry · 1931-08
USDA Circular 181 gives Minneola's 1931 named description and Eustis trial context, including fruit, tree, storage, scab, and seasonal observations. Its shared-cross discussion names Bowen grapefruit only in the Lake/Seminole sibling context, so it does not resolve Minneola's conflicting parent label.
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Larry K. Jackson and Stephen H. Futch · University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/CH072 (opens in a new tab)
UF/IFAS describes Minneola fruit, pollination, tree, rootstock, production, and disease context. It calls Minneola a Duncan grapefruit × Dancy tangerine hybrid released by USDA in Orlando in 1931; the page does not state cross direction.
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u/Acminvan · Reddit / r/fruit
https://www.reddit.com/r/fruit/comments/1jgnxls/minneola_tangelo_oranges/ (opens in a new tab)
A personal consumer post calls the author's first Minneola the best orange they had eaten. A visible commenter separately described grocery-purchased wedges as silky, juicy, delicious, with a nice mouthfeel; neither account identifies the fruit's origin or sampling method.
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M. L. Roose; S. N. Traugh · Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science · 1988
https://doi.org/10.21273/JASHS.113.1.100 (opens in a new tab)
The paper compares nucellar and zygotic Rubidoux trifoliate rootstocks. Its Minneola result concerns a Minneola tangelo scion on one zygotic Rubidoux seedling rootstock versus a nucellar-rootstock mean; it is not a cultivar-wide Minneola result.
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Eliezer S. Louzada; Chandrika Ramadugu · HortTechnology / American Society for Horticultural Science · 2021-05-05
https://journals.ashs.org/view/journals/horttech/31/3/article-p243.xml (opens in a new tab)
The review groups Minneola among tangelos produced from Dancy mandarin × Duncan grapefruit breeding. This attribution does not resolve the older Circular 181 Bowen cross account already retained in the catalog and does not justify changing Minneola’s existing parentage.
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Skandiberg · Tropical Fruit Forum · 2026-03-05
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=60062.msg577231#msg577231 (opens in a new tab)
In the follow-up report on received fruit stored for two weeks, Skandiberg records Minneola at Brix 9 with five seeds and describes a dominant orange aroma and very juicy fruit. The post also mentions a wife’s earlier tasting of another fruit; that is not treated as the same measured sample. Orchard provenance and sample count are unstated.
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W. P. Bitters · Journal of Citrus Pathology (digital special topic) · 2021 (digital edition; manuscript circa 1986)
At printed p. 82 (PDF p. 88), Bitters summarizes Moreira et al. (1965), who placed Minneola Tangelo among the “low” rootstock drought-resistance group. The source describes nucellar Bara and Valencia Late orange, Dancy tangerine, and Eureka lemon scions budded on 77 tristeza-tolerant rootstocks under nonirrigated conditions in Brazil. It does not identify the accession or clone of any listed rootstock, provide a variety-specific sample count, or report a measured threshold.
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Edward O. Olson and G. H. Godfrey · Rio Grande Valley Horticultural Club · 1953
http://www.subplantsci.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/v07-1953.pdf (opens in a new tab)
Table 2, printed p. 28, reports counts for seedlings in Substation 15 plots inoculated in 1950: cotton-root-rot deaths in 1951 and 1952, and seedlings alive in September 1952. Counts are not percentages; the table gives no per-row denominator. The paper cautions that freeze injury, other diseases, and planting-date differences complicated comparisons.
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F. E. Gardner and G. E. Horanic · Proceedings of the Florida State Horticultural Society · 1959-06-13
https://journals.flvc.org/fshs/article/download/101309/97253/130008 (opens in a new tab)
Table 1, printed p. 83, reports adjusted and unadjusted cold-injury ratings and trunk circumference for named rootstocks under Valencia orange tops. The 10-year-old planting was at Weirsdale, Florida; injury followed winter 1957–58 freezes and ratings were made June 18, 1958. The study-specific ratings are comparative rootstock results, not traits of the rootstock variety as a scion or a temperature threshold.
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