Trimble Tangerine

Webber and Swingle’s 1905 account names the tangerine for W. K. Trimble, whose Braidentown grove produced the original cross, and says the resulting seedling was grown and tested in W. S. Hart’s Hawks Park grove. UCR’s 1967 retrospective says Trimble is now regarded as a nucellar seedling of Dancy, rather than a new sexual hybrid.^⁠[1]⁠[2]

In their historical description, Webber and Swingle call the fruit compressed-spherical, averaging about 5.6 ounces, deep orange-red, rough and bumpy, with a loose rind, 9–11 segments, tender juicy flesh, and a sprightly-acid flavor. They describe the tree as vigorous and prolific, with very early tangerine maturity; the fruit averaged about 10 seeds.^⁠[1]

In Webber and Swingle’s historical comparison, Trimble fruit were generally larger than Weshart but slightly inferior in flavor. At W. S. Hart’s grove, they report that Trimble ripened about two weeks before Dancy, while noting the new tangerines had not been tested elsewhere.^⁠[1]