Specialty fruit are also part of the Florida citrus family. Varieties include Temples, tangerines and tangelos. Temples, which are available only two months a year, generally are regarded as one of Florida's finest eating fruit. Temples are juicy and easy to section. They have few seeds, peel easily and taste rich and sweet.
Tangelos are a zingy-tasting hybrid cross of tangerines and grapefruit.
They are very juicy and peel easily. The peel is usually pebbly, of medium thickness, and reddish-orange in color. Oranges from the Sunshine State, which are grown in a subtropical climate where nighttime temperatures are warmer, often retain some green or yellow color, even through the fruit inside is fully ripe. So the peel actually may turn a little green as it fully ripens. If you were to hold a Florida orange in one hand, and a non-Florida orange of the same size in the other, the Florida orange would feel heavier.