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Citrus × tachibana
Tachibana orange is a wild citrus, a mandarin-type hybrid native to the forests of Japan and the Ryukyu Islands, sometimes treated as its own species and sometimes as a subspecies of mandarin. Grow it like other mandarins: full sun, well-drained soil, and protection from frost.
The tachibana orange (Citrus × tachibana, or Citrus reticulata subsp. tachibana) is a variety of mandarin orange, a citrus fruit. They grow wild in the forests of Japan and are referred to in the poetry of the early Japanese and Ryukyu Islands kingdoms. The Tanaka System assigns them their own species, while the Swingle System places them in the same species with other mandarin oranges.
Genomic analysis has shown tachibana oranges to be a constellation of distinct natural F1 hybrids that cross the pure Ryukyu Island mandarin C. ryukyuensis with mainland Asian C. reticulata that was itself a hybrid of northern and southern subspecies, but also contained some prior Ryukyu mandarin introgression.
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