Success is not in Western Australia at this stage. It originated as a limb sport of Ellendale tangor and is under Provisional Plant Breeder Rights owned by The Citrus Nursery at Tornbanlea, Queensland. The fruit was selected because of its extremely good eating flavour. In Queensland it matures after Imperial and before Ellendale and Murcott. Tangeloes Tangeloes were developed by crossing mandarins and grapefruit.
Fruits are orange and more like mandarins in appearance than grapefruit.
The four varieties in Western Australia that have been around for a number of years are, in order of ripening, Orlando, Minneola, Seminole and San Jacinto. The only variety to be well accepted in the marketplace is Minneola due to its brilliant colour and novel pear shape. Minneola ripens from August to September but for best acceptance it should not be harvested until fruit reaches a sugar to acid ratio of 8.5 to 1. Troyer and Carrizo Citrange are suitable rootstocks for most mandarin varieties on good, well-drained soils but are slow to establish in sandy soils and are inclined to suffer from trace element deficiencies. They have good tolerance to nematodes and phytophthora root rot but do not thrive on alkaline soils.