If you like citrus fruits, you’ll definitely love some of these amazing hybrid citrus fruits mentioned in the following article! Read ahead for a juicy trip!
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!