Tangerine Vs Clementine Appearance Matters… They are widely grown in Algeria, Spain, Morocco, Italy, and Turkey and are available from mid-November to January. The clementine has an intensely sweet flavor and are a holiday favorite. The clementine, like the tangerine, belongs to the family of Citrus reticulata and is also referred to as the Algerian tangerine. The clementine is considered to be an accidental hybrid, a cross between an orange and a mandarin, and is said to be discovered by Father Clement Rodier in 1902. ClementineĬlementines, also known as the seedless tangerines, are varieties of the mandarin orange. The tangerine season lasts from October to April in the Northern Hemisphere. The varieties of Tangerine include honey tangerine, sunburst tangerines, dancy tangerine and ponkan or Chinese honey tangerines. Tangerines are generally used in salads and desserts, the peel is dried and widely used for the Sichuan cuisine. Tangerines were initially cultivated in China and Japan and moved to the west in the 19th century. Referred to as citrus tangerine, it is a smaller and thin-skinned cousin of the orange. Let’s take a look at how the tangerine varies from the clementine.

Though both clementines and tangerines belong to the same family of mandarin oranges and are rich sources of vitamin C and citric acid, they are visibly different from each other. If one goes by the saying, ‘ no two leaves are alike‘, then, this principle can be applied to these fruits.

Algerian tangerine clementine