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World of CitrusWorld of CitrusTango Mandarin
University of California, Riverside — Citrus Variety Collection
https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc4183 (opens in a new tab)
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United States plant patent · Google Patents
https://patents.google.com/patent/USPP17863P3/en (opens in a new tab)
Patent metadata checked September 19, 2026; reported status and expiration are not a legal determination.
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Tom McClendon (Citrus Palms With Tom) · YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLynIzGDO1w (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: English auto-generated captions, 0:01–17:28. At 10:42–11:41 McClendon identifies Tango Mandarin, says the tree had many fruit in the prior year and bloomed heavily in the current year but had only one or two visible fruit. He speculates that this could be alternate bearing or drought-related, and says he is unsure. No measured crop count, rootstock, or fruit tasting is reported. The page showed “4 months ago” when accessed 2026-09-27; exact publication date is unverified.
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finestcitygarden · YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj_cOk9m8ak (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: English auto-generated captions cover 0:00–12:21 of 12:25. At 1:09–1:18 the presenter dates the tasting as January 25, 2025 and says it is a little late to pick Kishu; at 1:30–1:38 he is unsure about Tango, which he says came with Daisy SL from the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo orchard. The video description says most varieties were grown in San Diego, California (zone 10b), while Tango and Daisy SL were from Cal Poly. Tango is peeled at 1:56–2:11 after being off-tree about a week; at 6:16–6:40 tasters describe it as very sour and suggest it may be too early. No instrumental measurements or exact sample harvest date are given.
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Cecilia Parsons · Progressive Crop Consultant · 2022-07-13
Secondary recap of a Citrus Research Board webinar (article lines 29–36). Parsons reports that in a 2010–2020 Tango rootstock trial, Rich 16-6 and Pomeroy trifoliate had high tree losses, while Swingle, Carrizo, C-35, and Volkameriana showed few chlorosis symptoms. No underlying counts, site details, or Rich-only sample size are provided; this is trial-specific, not a general Rich 16-6 performance estimate.
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Jake Price · UGA Citrus Blog · 2023-11-03
Nine-tree-per-rootstock Tango comparison assessed after the Christmas 2022 freeze. Rich 16-6 was among rootstocks with the most canopy removed; seven of nine Rich trees had been replaced a year after planting because they were smaller initially, and the two older unreplaced Rich trees had significant cold damage. The post gives no Rich-specific temperature, exposure duration, or canopy-loss percentage; this is a Tango trial, not a universal hardiness threshold.
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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 Madison Citrus Nursery, the speaker identifies Tango and calls it “tangy” at 4:56–5:02. 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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University of California, Riverside — Office of Technology Commercialization
https://techtransfer.universityofcalifornia.edu/NCD/25960.html (opens in a new tab)
UC technology-licensing entry, Tech ID 25960 / UC Case 2005-760-1. The institutional description calls Tango a mutation-bred W. Murcott selection, says it is low-seeded or seedless under cross-pollination, and describes its flavor, peelability, upright growth, and mid- to late-season maturity (peak February–March). These are licensing-page descriptions without a stated sample, trial site, measurement method, or sample size; retain broad claims as attributed statements.
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Ashley Robinson · Citrus Industry · 2020-06-24
https://citrusindustry.net/2020/06/24/the-ins-and-outs-of-tango/ (opens in a new tab)
The page displays Tacy Callies as its byline/poster, while its footer credits Ashley Robinson as the article writer; author is recorded as Robinson. Lines 34–36 report first Florida nursery licensing in 2009, commercial licenses by early 2010, and fewer than five seeds per fruit in a mixed block. Lines 39–42 attribute to Peter Chaires Tango's better-than-average performance with HLB despite symptoms and continued cropping. Lines 44–45 attribute to Pete Anderson a report from 10-year-old Tango on Swingle at the North Florida Research and Education Center in Quincy: about 200 lb/tree and 120 g fruit, typically maturing in December with improved peel color if held into January. Lines 48–59 report variable peel color and grower-observed Brix variation; Chaires says early plantings were 13–14 °Brix while some current trees were in the 9s, with rootstock only a possible factor. Grower accounts, not a controlled statewide trial; no measurements should be converted into taste ratings.
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Faisal Shahzad; Tripti Vashisth; Mark A. Ritenour; Jeffrey K. Brecht · LWT, volume 161, article 113321 · 2022-05-01
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0023643822002560 (opens in a new tab)
Publisher-page abstract only (the full article and tables were not audited). The abstract describes Tango as fairly tolerant to HLB and reports that the K+B foliar treatment was associated with fewer HLB-symptomatic fruit, greater fruit weight and diameter, and better peel color; postharvest degreening enabled marketable color. The study combines preharvest foliar nutrient treatments on HLB-affected trees with postharvest degreening/storage. The abstract does not provide the sample size, site, rootstock, methods, or numeric outcomes; no full-text or table-level claims are made.
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jesen84 · YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4wawLDG9qo (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: English auto-generated captions cover 0:00–2:52 of the 2:53 video. At 0:09–0:16 the presenter describes a fairly young Tango tree as seemingly vigorous and upright; at 1:31–1:51 they call this particular fruit variable in size and the variety productive. At 1:52–2:18 the presenter tastes one home-grown fruit, calling it very juicy and sweet with a little tangy/tart taste, and says it had no seeds. Easy peelability is described at 1:16 and 2:39–2:45. This is one grower’s account; location, rootstock, harvest date, crop year, and measurement methods are unstated. No ratings or instrumental readings.
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Homegrown Organic Farms; presenter Agustin Cardenas · YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqxWYpr7rgc (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: English auto-generated captions cover 0:00–2:44 of the 2:45 video. From 0:22–2:15 the presenter identifies the orchard block as Tango (captions sometimes misrecognize the name), describes the fruit as sweet, juicy and crisp at 0:40–0:47, then says it is not extremely sweet compared with Satsuma/other mandarins and is a little tart at 0:53–1:06. At 1:31–1:51 he says production is usually very good, with one weaker crop year, without giving a year or yield. The comparison is relative and the production report is an unquantified grower account; location, rootstock and crop years are unstated. A separate Gold Nugget block at 2:20 is not Tango evidence. Page displayed “3 years ago”; exact publication date unverified.
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Homegrown Organic Farms; presenter Agustin Cardenas · YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJnd6KqcPVU (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: English auto-generated captions cover 0:11–1:52 of the 1:57 video. The presenter identifies a Tango block at 0:11 and at 0:16–0:42 describes that season’s crop as distributed through the top, bottom, inside and outside of the canopy. At 0:47–1:44 he says they changed from flat topping to angled pruning the prior year because Tango bears on previous-year fruitwood; he thinks this worked and says this crop had more fruit. This is a grower’s account and proposed explanation, not a controlled pruning comparison. Site, crop years, tree age, rootstock, counts and measurements are unstated. Page displayed “6 months ago”; exact publication date unverified.
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Dirty Gnomes Gardens · YouTube · 2021-03-05
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PRCtojPJzA (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: English auto-generated captions cover 0:01–7:37 of the 7:40 video. At 0:33–0:44 the grower says one Tango tree, planted about a year earlier, had about 20% dieback after transplant shock and a hot summer. In a two-fruit comparison at 4:09–6:20, the Tango fruit is described as seedless, easy to peel, and having a nice tart bite; the grower says it was more ripe than the Murcott being compared. At 7:12–7:31 the grower gives a February to mid-March season for their location, which is not stated. No numeric tasting scores or instrument readings. Generic mandarin hardiness and alternate-bearing advice is not Tango-specific.
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Tom McClendon · YouTube · 2025-12-29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGyb2DL14vI (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: English auto-generated captions cover 0:04–2:40 of the 2:44 video. Tango is the right-side fruit in the comparison; the presenter describes that instance as seedless at 0:26–0:39 and 2:04–2:13, but does not taste it. The speaker says “irradiated Murcott”; this note does not sharpen that to W. Murcott. A forecast 28°F is not a survival observation. The other fruit is Amoa 8, and its traits are not transferred to Tango.
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Arizona Fruit Trees · YouTube · 2016-08-28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9f__GH3GMA (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: English auto-generated captions cover 0:01–3:00 of the 3:03 video. At 0:17–0:58 the grower describes one Tango in a 24-inch pot, says it set fruit within six months of purchase, and calls its fruit seedless, easy to peel and very sweet. The grower says the fruit stayed on the tree for a long time; the “about eight months worth” wording is unclear and is not treated as a standardized season. No fruit count, taste scale, instrumental reading, rootstock or location is provided.
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K.D. Bowman and U. Albrecht · USDA ARS USHRL / UF-IFAS SWFREC · 2020-02-14
One-page USDA ARS USHRL / UF-IFAS SWFREC notice dated 14 February 2020. It reports abnormal bud unions and/or unhealthy scion growth for Tango mandarin on US-1283 seedlings in nursery observations. Sample count, observation dates, and duration are not reported; this is a preliminary, limited propagation report, not a general compatibility test.
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