Valencia
Citrus x sinensis
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Description
Valencia is the world-famous late juicing orange, sold in NZ by The Plant Company (Orange Valencia) and Palmers Garden Centre (Orange Valencia). The Plant Company describes it as celebrated for sweet juicy flavour and excellent juicing qualities, a staple loved for versatile use and a prolific fruiting season. While the catalog holds NZ Valencia-type selections (Harwood Late, Delta, Midknight), the standard Valencia itself is missing; it is the benchmark late-season orange holding fruit on the tree into summer.
Characteristics
Fruit Size
Medium
Peel Colour
Orange
Flesh Colour
Orange
Harvest Timing (NZ)
Late
Seediness
Few Seeds
Growth Habit
Rounded
Thorny
Notes
Benchmark late juicing orange; fruit holds on tree into summer; standard form distinct from NZ selections Harwood Late, Delta, Midknight.; Also reported: hold-on-tree habit, late-spring-to-summer season, thin skin, juice-production use.
Fruit Use
Juicing
Flavour Profile
Sweet, juicy, classic late orange
Storage Life
Excellent