The difference between oranges and tangerines are different places of origin, different ripening seasons, different pulp, different varieties and different seeds.
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. Orange every Spring Festival is ripe for market, orange every fall maturity.
3, the flesh is different. Tangerine is a petal by petal, the skin is generally thinner, it is easy to peel. Orange 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 varieties. Orange is the basic species, small flowers, peel peel, orange is orange and sweet orange and other citrus hybrids, large flowers, fruit peeling is not as good as orange peel.
5, different seeds. Tangerine seeds of the embryo is dark green. The embryo of the orange seed is light green.