page mandarin

anyone have any experiences with page mandarin? is it as good as hyped up to be or overrated? description kind of sounds like a clementine.

The following thread was started by greg (nj 6b) on February 08, 2010 at 10:20 am PST

While my page mandarin hasn't fruited yet, I did hear it is supposed to be one of the better mandarins. Some people in the citrus forum (link below) consider it their favorite.

http://citrus.forumup.org/viewtopic.php?t=3114&highlight=mandarin&mforum=citrus

The above followup was added by atc (sunnyvale) on February 08, 2010 at 4:10 pm PST.

I was at a Green Thumb nursery this past weekend, talking with the workers about fruit trees, and one of them pulled me over to a mandarin tree in a 15 gal container. This is my favorite, he said, try it. And he picked a ripe one and handed it to me. It wasn't the easiest thing to peel, but it was very large for a tangerine, and the taste was real good. It wasn't super juicy, but just right. I don't remember too many seeds, if any. This was the only Page fruit I've sampled...but if I can find a planting spot, I might plant one.

The above followup was added by John 9b Topanga, Ca on February 09, 2010 at 0:35 am PST.