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Temple Oranges

This page first published: Jan 10, 2004 · Updated: Jun 16, 2018 · by CooksInfo. Copyright © 2021 · This web site may contain affiliate links · This web site generates income via ads · Information on this site is copyrighted. Taking whole pages for your website is theft and will be DCMA'd. See re-use information.
Temple Oranges are actually tangors, even though they are referred to as oranges.Temple Oranges are a fragrant, medium-sized orange with a thin, deep orange skin. The orange peels and separates into sections easily. It has a lot of seeds, an average of 20, but Temple fans still love it for its tangy, spicy flavour. The oranges are about 2 to 3 inches wide (5 to 7.5 cm.)

It grows on a bushy tree with thorns. Temples are mostly grown in Florida and Israel; they don’t grow well in California.

Cooking Tips

Very good for eating out of hand, or juicing.

History Notes

Temples are a hybrid that occurred naturally between oranges and tangerines. The Temple tree was discovered in Jamaica by a man named Boyce in 1896, who send samples sent around Florida. A man named W.C. Temple got some budwood samples, propagated them by grafting them onto other rootstock, and recommended them to a friend of his, an H.E. Gillett who owned a nursery. Gillett named them after his friend Temple, and began selling the trees in 1919. Cultivation took off in popularity in 1940.

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