In article >,
Kate Connally > wrote:
>I almost never buy tangerines so I've never
>really noticed, but do they have a "season".
>I have been looking for some recently and
>no one seems to have any. There are oranges,
>grapefruits, lemons, limes. I see those all
>year round. Why no tangerines? I would think
>all citrus fruits have about the same "season",
>so if you can find the others all year round why
>not tangerines. It's very frustrating.

No, citrus does not have the same season. Tangerines and clementines are
definitely cool-season fruits around here; this is the tag end of the
season. I don't often see them outside of season.

Much like many other fruits (peaches, plums, apples off the top of my
head ...), different varietals come ripe at different parts of the season.

In addition, many citrus farmers got badly hurt by our extended cold snap
earlier this year. Specialty crops like tangerines were hard-hit.

Charlotte
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