Who buys this stuff anyway? Who even eats the fruit? It is definitely a part of the orange family. It is a tiny citrus tree that produces fruit hawks like ranges. They are mini oranges if you will. The fruit is usually eaten plain or with salads they dress up the taste of the salad. They are classified as reddish-like tangerines but this is by no means a botanical definition. They are smaller and oblique in size than their cousins the oranges. Oranges are more spherical in shape and are larger. Unfortunately, the mandarin tree is more drought proof than the fruit itself. Generally, people eat them in their natural state after they have been peeled. They are heavy for their size. Let us move forward to talk about this mystical fruit.
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