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World of CitrusWorld of CitrusVariegated Minneola Tangelo
Nancy (petuniafish) · Houzz Discussions
https://www.houzz.com/discussions/5342249/variegated-minneola-tangelo (opens in a new tab)
The discussion includes Halyna’s reports from Central Florida (zone 9a) about two container-grown trees with unknown rootstocks. She reports one tree producing 7–10 fruit per year and staying compact; the second was more vigorous and more productive, with similar fruit size and taste. The tasting fruit count and method are not stated.
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Halyna · Houzz Discussions
https://www.houzz.com/discussions/5647714/variegated-minneola-fruit-comparison (opens in a new tab)
Halyna compares one variegated fruit with one fruit from a light-green/green-leaved branch of the same Minneola tree, picked the same day. She reports differences in stripe color, size, rind thickness, looseness, peelability and sweetness. This is a single-tree, two-fruit comparison; no replication or maturity measurement is reported, and the pollination explanation is untested.
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Galka · Tropical Fruit Forum · 2015-02-19
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=14434.0 (opens in a new tab)
This two-page thread contains Galka’s personal reports from 2015–2016 about fruit appearance, necks, and individual seed counts including 17- and 31-seed fruit. The grower also compares one fruit each from older and newer trees. These are separate fruit and tree observations; rootstock and maturity are not controlled, and the thread does not establish a pollinator or seedlessness trait.
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Tough Citrus (@toughcitrus) · YouTube · 2024-01-08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYtvgobftsw (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: The English transcript describes variegated leaves and striped fruit, juicy flesh, a flavor compared with regular Minneola and orange candy, and the speaker's phrase “so sweet.” The speaker also makes an untested general cold-protection claim using “High Teens 18 19°”; it is not a measured cultivar threshold. The sampled tree, fruit count, rootstock, maturity and harvest date are not established. The mutation-origin account is relayed from a nursery proprietor.
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TD Homestead (@tdhomestead) · YouTube · 2025-11-28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRl8bXWUf4I (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: The transcript reports a first harvest of one fruit on Nov. 27, 2025 from a potted North Carolina tree bought the prior year. The speaker says the fruit had seeds and a “tangerini type flavor,” and judged it ripe when the formerly green stripes turned orange. The pot is corrected from three to five gallons; rootstock and measured maturity are not stated.
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