A Detailed Introduction to the Three Main Excellent Blood Orange Varieties Grown
Blood oranges have a fresh, sweet taste and are also very rich in nutritional value, making them popular with many people, so their cultivation prospects are still quite promising. So today, the editor will introduce to you the three main excellent blood orange varieties grown.
The three main excellent blood orange varieties grown:
1. Hongyu Blood Orange
Also known as Ruby Blood Orange, Honghua Orange, and Hongbao Orange. It is mainly produced in countries along the Mediterranean coast, and is also cultivated in China. The tree crown is round-headed, compact, semi-spreading, with medium vigor, slender and hard branches and twigs, with short thorns; the fruit is oblate or spherical, medium in size, with a single fruit weight of 130-140 grams, smooth peel, orange-yellow in color before fully ripe, dark red after full maturity with purplish-red markings, the peel is crisp and tender, relatively thin, the juice sacs are soft, and after full maturity and storage they turn blood-red, with abundant juice, moderate sweetness and acidity, and a rose fragrance.
2. Rose Blood Orange
⟦NL> 1. Rose Blood Orange is also called Rose Sweet Orange. Rose Sweet Orange carries a rose flavor, rose aroma, and rose color. Giving it to your loved one on Valentine's Day is very trendy." It is commonly called the lovers' fruit by many people. On Valentine's Day, give a lovers' fruit instead of a rose. Its tree vigor is strong, with thick branches and large leaves, and many thorns. After the tree vigor is moderated, it is high-yielding and stable-yielding, mainly bearing fruit on weak branches. The fruit is obovate or short elliptical, with obvious grooves at the stem end, and a single fruit weight of 200-250g, making it the largest crystal line among blood oranges, and it is currently the best first-choice variety for fruit farmers to plant.
2. The peel is especially smooth, and when mature the peel and flesh are blood-red. The fruit generally matures in late January. Because its appearance is extremely beautiful, it caters to the Chinese habit of liking red on festive occasions. In addition, the flesh is tender and melts in the mouth, the juice is plentiful and the flavor is rich and sweet, and the aroma is strong. The soluble solids content is 12%-13%, and the fruit is large and seedless, giving it extremely strong market competitiveness.
3. Tarocco
1. It was selected and bred from the nucellar line progeny of Tarocco blood orange. This superior line comes from the nucellar line progeny of Tarocco blood orange, has strong growth vigor, and is the most vigorous-growing variety among sweet oranges. The tree crown is round-headed. An 8-year-old young tree on trifoliate orange rootstock has a plant height of 3.26 m, a tree crown of 2.63X2.83 m, and a trunk circumference of 9 cm. The leaves are large and the branches are thick; the leaves are ovate to long elliptical. The wing leaf is obovate, the petiole is long, and the thorns are numerous and long. The fruit is on the small side and seedy.
2. Nearly round to elliptical, with an average single fruit weight of 100-150g, it is the smallest fruit among blood oranges. The peel is especially smooth, and the oil cells are large and sparse, slightly raised. When not fully mature, it can fully "color up" after harvest and storage, and when fully mature it is purplish-red, extremely beautiful. The fruit apex is round and smooth, occasionally with faintly visible radial grooves. The sepals are peach-shaped, with early drying and falling. The central column is small and semi-hollow, the sponge layer is thin and yellowish-white, and does not crack; the segment walls are thin, and the juice sacs are slender with long pointed tips. The flesh is tender and melts in the mouth, with abundant juice and a rich flavor, with a rose fragrance, and the quality is of the highest grade. Every 100 ml of juice contains 9.9 g total sugar, 0.89 g total acid, 64 mg vitamin C, 12.8% soluble solids, a solids-to-acid ratio of 14.30, and a sugar-to-acid ratio of 11.07.
Alright, that is all the content the editor wanted to introduce to everyone. Friends who love oranges probably also know that blood oranges are very delicious, right? The price is not very expensive either. The main thing is that eating them is good for your health, so you can eat more of them normally! The three blood orange varieties above are relatively high quality. I wonder whether everyone has tried them all.
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