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Ninkat Mandarin

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Ninkat Mandarin

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Ninkat Mandarin

Overview Discussion

Characteristics

Growing & propagation

Hardiness Health & resistance Grafting

Breeding & lineage

Breeding Pedigree Hybrids

History & sources

History Sources

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Unknown parentage

Ninkat Mandarin

Estimated Genetic Ancestry

100% Mandarin

The USDA-ARS release for US-1284 identifies a 1995 cross of Ninkat mandarin and Gotha Road #6 trifoliate orange, made by Kim D. Bowman at A.H. Whitmore Foundation Farm. It does not specify seed or pollen parent roles.^⁠[1]