*** Quoting Bj”rn Forsstr”m from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

BK>>  Could be where you got them they raise a different varitey. I am
BK>>  only familiar with the Florida or other southern US varieties.

 CS> I recall them from Florida but as a special thing people had gotten from
 CS> elsewhere.  One lady had a tree of them not far from my house.

 CS> The ones Bjorn and I mention, are Asian ones and quite common here.  I'd
 CS> guess from looks and taste, related closely to the mandarin orange
 CS> (Meekan) which is happy with a more northerly climate than Florida but I
 CS> think more subject to damage from lack of rainfall?

BF> I wasn't talking about any particular oranges and coming to think abou
BF> it I didn't
BF> see any oranges at all when I was in Thailand.
BF> What I heard about them turning orange was more in general so I though
BF> every orange is green and turn orange due to the temperature change.

Oh well, they all start as green, yes.  But the Florida ones as far as I
know ¨other than that one tree a neighbor had broght from overseas (Asia
would be my ¨guess now but don't know for sure), all the florida ones were
only ripe once ¨mostly orange.  No 'treatment' dont to change them at all.

Yes, come to think of it, your trip was in 'winter' so past the season for
¨them.  Asia is mostly 'seasonal' in eating so the foods shift much.  You
might ¨have seen Calamansi still but that's more like a lime.
                                       xxcarol

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