NuClem

NuClem is a nucellar-producing Clementine. The Mulberries labels it “Nucellar Clementine (NuClem),” and Woodlanders says it comes true from seed and that Tom McClendon shared it. No specific Clementine accession, originator or original selection event is documented. Its displayed 50/50 mandarin–sweet orange ancestry is a classification-based Clementine estimate, not a NuClem-specific genomic result.^⁠[1]⁠[2]

Ross-supplied NuClem fruit in The Mulberries’ tasting was already ripe and riper than the M.I.C. sample. It was juicy, tender and mandarin-flavored, with seeds and a peel that released well without being zipper-skinned. The final card gives a rounded mean weight of 72 g and 10 °Bx; the narrated Brix reading is 11 °Bx. These are sample observations, not fixed cultivar values.^⁠[1]

Cold reports vary by site and may concern different accessions. Woodlanders quotes McClendon describing NuClem as reliably hardy in Montezuma, Georgia, probably near Satsuma; Gaylord Ventura reports needing winter care in Virginia Beach and high Poncirus grafting rather than its own roots. In 2014, Eyeckr listed a tree labeled NuClem among plants he lost; his posts also report zero protection and a backyard thermometer reading of 5.5–6 degrees (apparently °F) but do not establish the tree’s actual exposure. A French forum seedling has a tentative Unshiu × reticulata? label, and a grower in another thread tentatively reidentifies a differently labeled graft as NuClem; neither establishes NuClem’s pedigree or a shared clone identity. No cultivar-wide cold minimum is established.^{⁠[2]⁠[3]⁠[4]⁠[5]⁠[6]⁠[7]}