Hybrid Citrus Fruits

Come summer and the greengrocer's shelves get laden with fresh, juicy, citrus fruits of all shapes, sizes and colors! It's as if the inviting warmth of the early summer sun sends off summons to all the sweetness in nature and nature answers this summon by generously injecting seasonal citrus fruits with nutritious, tangy-sweet, refreshing juice! Also, no other word describes the chromatic hues of those citrus delights better than the word sunny! Those bright yellows, oranges, crimsons and all shades in between infuse a feel-good factor even as you look upon them and hold them in your hands while out fruit-shopping. Not that Mother Nature left any room for insufficiency, but being the eternally inquisitive, perennially-dissatisfied-with-our-lot scoundrels that we are, human beings have been experimenting on the possibility of creating hybrid fruits and vegetables since ages.

However, the results, so far, have been quite delightful as far as hybrid citrus fruits are concerned. Besides inheriting the nutritional values of its original citrus parents, these hybrid citruses often score higher than their parents on the taste and appearance indices. Wondering what these hybrids are? Well, believe it or not, but most of you have tasted and loved some of these without realizing they're hybrids! Tangerines and grapefruit, for example are two of the most popular hybrid citrus names that a majority out there are familiar with.

Hybrid Citrus Fruits List

It might come to you as a surprise, albeit a pleasant one, that there are as many as 40 different citrus fruit varieties including the regular grapefruits and tangerines! So, check out the following table to find out what some of these hybrid citrus fruits are along with information on the original fruits that were used to create each hybrid.

Hybrid Citrus Fruit	Derived From/Cross Between...
Amanatsu	Pomelo
Bergamot Orange	Sweet Lemon/Sweet Lime and Bitter Orange
Blood Lime	Red Finger Lime and Ellendale Mandarin
Calamondin	Mandarin Orange and Kumquat/Cumquat
Cam sành	Pomelo and Mandarin Orange
Citrange	Sweet Orange and Trifoliate Orange
Citrangequat	Citrange and Kumquat
Clementine	Mediterranean Mandarin and Sweet Orange
Dekopon	Kiyomi and Chinese Honey Orange / Ponkan
Fairchild Tangerine	Clementine Mandarin and Orlando Tangelo
Grapefruit	Pomelo and Sweet Orange
Imperial Lemon	Lemon and Grapefruit
Jaffa Orange/Shamouti Orange	Baladi Orange
Kabosu	Sour Orange and Ichang Papeda
Kaffir Lime	Southeast Asian Lime
Kinnow	Citrus Nobilis and Citrus Deliciosa varieties of Mandarin Orange
Kiyomi	Satsuma and Trovita
Lemon	Sour Orange and Citron
Limequat	Key Lime and Kumquat
Mandelo	King Mandarin, Dancy Tangerine and Siamese Sweet Pomelo
Mandora	Mandarin and Orange
Meyer Lemon	True Lemon and Common Orange/Mandarin
Musk Lime / Panama Orange	Mandarin Orange and Kumquat
Orangelo	Grapefruit and Orange
Orangequat	Satsuma Mandarin and Meiwa Kumquat
Oroblanco	Pomelo and White Grapefruit
Ponderosa Lemon	Lemon and Citron
Rangpur	Mandarin Orange and Lemon
Sudachi	Mandarin Orange and Ichang Papeda
Sunquat	Meyer Lemon and Kumquat
Sweet Orange	Pomelo and Mandarin
Tangelo	Tangerine and Pomelo/Grapefruit
Tangerine	Mandarin Orange
Tangor	Tangerine and Sweet Orange
Ugli Fruit/Jamaican Tangelo	Orange, tangerine and Grapefruit/Pomelo
Valencia Orange	Sweet Orange
Yuzu	Sour Mandarin and Ichang-Papeda
Yuzuquat	Yuzu, Kumquat and Lemon

Those were some of the most delicious hybrid citrus fruit varieties that are found in different parts of the world. While some of these are crosses between two or more natural or hybrid fruits, some others are derivatives or mutated varieties of single fruits that may be natural or hybrids themselves. Next time you go shopping for citrus fruits this season, make sure you try out all those hybrid citruses that you haven't treated your taste buds with as yet. Make juices and smoothies out of these different hybrid fruit varieties instead of settling for the standard orange juice this summer. Now that you know how spoiled for choice you are, go ahead and drown yourself in the nutritiously refreshing, fruity extravaganza of these deliciously tangy hybrid citruses!