Dancy (citrus)

Dancy
SpeciesCitrus reticulata
Cultivar'Dancy'
Marketing nameszipper-skin tangerine, kid-glove orange
OriginOrange Mills, Florida, United States [1][2]

The Dancy tangerine (zipper-skin tangerine, kid-glove orange) is one of the oldest and formerly most popular American citrus varieties, but is now rarely sold.[3]

The Dancy originated in 1867, as a seedling grown by Colonel Francis L. Dancy.[1][4] It was called tangerine because its parent, the Moragne tangerine, was believed to come from Morocco.[5]

It has an intense, medium-sweet flavour, and its juice is more strongly-flavoured than orange juice.[3][5] It is known (and sometimes named) for its loose, pliable peel, which is mainly orange flavedo, with very little bitter white mesocarp (also called albedo or pith). This allows the peel to be eaten fresh and used to flavour dishes like tangerine beef.[3] The Dancy may be a pure mandarin, unlike many commercial citrus cultivars, which are hybrids.[6]

  1. ^ a b Larry K. Jackson and Stephen H. Futch. "HS169/CH074: Dancy Tangerine". ufl.edu. Number HS169 of a series of the Horticultural Sciences Department, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date September 1993. Revised March 2003. Reviewed January 2015.
  2. ^ "Dancy". Archived from the original on 2015-07-02. Retrieved 2015-07-01.
  3. ^ a b c "Market Watch: The wild and elusive Dancy". David Karp, LA Times. http://www.latimes.com/food/la-fo-marketwatch-20110128-story.html
  4. ^ "Col. Francis L. Dancy". Florida Citrus Hall of Fame. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  5. ^ a b "Slow Food USA: Dancy Tangerine". Archived from the original on 2016-04-09. Retrieved 2015-07-01.
  6. ^ Barkley, NA; Roose, ML; Krueger, RR; Federici, CT (2006). "Assessing genetic diversity and population structure in a citrus germplasm collection utilizing simple sequence repeat markers (SSRs)". Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 112 (8): 1519–1531. doi:10.1007/s00122-006-0255-9. PMID 16699791. S2CID 7667126.