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Family: Rutaceae	Genus: Citrus	Species: Citrus reticulata Blanco

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Citrus chrysocarpa Lush., Citrus deliciosa Ten.	Flower Color	White
Common Name	Mandarin orange	Flower Type	Solitary
English / Trade Name	Culate Mandarin, European Mandarin, Loose Skinned Orange, Maltese Orange, Sasutma Orange, Tangerine, True Mandarin	Flowering Period	July-Sept
Vernacular /Local Name	Santara, Narangi	Fruiting Period	Oct-Dec
Altitude	Up to 1800 m	Fruit Type	Hesperidium
Habit	Shrub	Fruit Details	Fruit oblate, peel bright-orange or red-orange when ripe, loose, separating easily from the segments; seeds small, pointed at one end, green inside.
Habitat	Western Ghats & Eastern Ghats, dry deciduous to moist deciduous forests.	Bark Type	Prickly
Distribution	Cultivated, native of South East Asiatic region	Bark Details	Usually thorny, with slender twigs,
Distribution in chandigarh	Chandigarh Botanical Garden and Nature Park	Origin	Exotic
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Lence shaped
Description of Species	Small tree up to 7 m tall. ) with a greater spread. Bark prickled. Leaves 1-foliolate; leaf blade lanceolate, elliptic, or broadly ovate, basal articulated part to leaf blade usually narrow or only a remnant, margin apically obtusely crenulate or rarely entire, apex emarginate. Flowers borne singly or a few together in the leaf axils, white; calyx irregularly 3-5-lobed. Petals white. Fruit hesperidium, oblate, the peel bright-orange or red-orange when ripe, loose and separating easily from the segments; seeds are small, pointed at one end, green inside.	Leaf Details	Leaves 1-foliolate; leaf blade lanceolate, elliptic, or broadly ovate, basal articulated part to leaf blade usually narrow or only a remnant, margin apically obtusely crenulate or rarely entire, apex emarginated.

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