Orange and tangerine differences are: different places of origin, different ripening seasons, different flesh, different habits, written and read differently.

1, different places of origin

Tangerine born in the South is orange, orange born in the North is Hovenia, orange born with the South, such as Guangdong, Fujian and other places, orange born in the North.

2, different ripening season

Tangerine is ripe every year in the Spring Festival on the market, tangerine ripening every year in the fall.

3, the flesh is different

Tangerine is a petal by petal, the skin is generally thinner, it is easy to peel. Tangerine word is thicker skin, inside also divided into flaps but it is very bad to break into a petal, most of them are knife cut to eat.

4, different habits

Orange is born in the north, and orange tree with other fruit trees have the same growth habit, that is, prefer a moist growth environment. And in many environments, the orange tree's favorite is 26 degrees of room temperature climate. And orange trees also like the humidity of about 75% of the environment, that is to say, the South is very suitable for cultivation of orange trees.

5, written and read different

Tangerine and orange in addition to writing different, in pronunciation and meaning are the same. Only the North more written as "orange", the South more written as "tangerine", but they express the same kind of fruit.