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Our citrus fruit are grown on carefully selected farms throughout South Africa, where growing conditions are optimally suited to the cultivation of the individual varieties.

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Nova

A very sweet, semi-seeded member of the mandarin family. Nova has a rich flavour, dark orange colour and fine texture, as well as high sugar levels resulting in a sweet and easy eating experience. Nova tends to be more flat to round, depending on production practices, making the fruit attractive for various market segments. It is an easy growing, mid-season variety with an exceptional shelf life.

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Valley Gold

Valley Gold seedless has a deep orange to red external appearance. The internal fruit colour is dark orange. The fruit has high sugar with good acid levels, making this variety an excellent eating experience. Orchards produce both a flat and round shape, with a smooth skin texture, making marketing to different segments easier.

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Clementine

The clementine has a juicy, superbly sweet flesh and is generally seedless. A petite fruit, bright orange in appearance with a thin, round easy-to-peel skin, rich with essential oils and citrus aromatics. The skin of a clementine clings loosely to the segmented flesh to allow for easy peeling and instant enjoyment.

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Orri

Orri is late-season mandarin, known for its exceptional sweetness, low acidity, and juicy, tender flesh. It has a bright orange, smooth, and easy-to-peel skin, making it ideal for fresh consumption. Orri is typically seedless when grown in isolated orchards. With its long shelf life and rich flavor, the Orri has become a popular export fruit, especially valued for its consistent quality and attractive appearance

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Nadorcott

The Nadorcott mandarin is a premium, late-season mandarin known for its vibrant orange color, easy-to-peel skin, and rich, sweet-tart flavor with a smooth, glossy rind. Nadorcotts are prized for their juicy, firm flesh and balanced taste, making them popular for fresh eating. Typically harvested from mid-winter to early spring, they are a favorite among consumers for their consistent quality and excellent shelf life.

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Tango

Tango is a seedless, late-season variety prized for its bright orange skin, easy peelability, and rich, sweet flavor with a hint of tang. Tango offers a smooth texture and juicy flesh, making it ideal for fresh eating and juicing. Its seedless nature, even when grown near other citrus, and its excellent shelf life have made it a favorite among growers and consumers alike.

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Honey Murcott

Honey Murcott mandarin, also known simply as Murcott or Murcott Honey Tangerine, is sweet and juicy, prized for its rich flavor and vibrant orange color. It is technically a tangor, a hybrid between a mandarin and an orange. The fruit has a thin, easy-to-peel skin and is nearly seedless. Honey Murcotts are typically harvested in late winter to early spring and are popular for fresh eating due to their intense sweetness and smooth texture.
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Lemons

Eureka

Eureka lemons are medium-small, elliptical in shape, and sometimes longitudinally ridged. The fruit usually have a slight neck and a short nipple. The rind is milky-white to yellow at maturity, has sunken oil glands, and is slightly textured. The flesh is pale greenish-yellow, low-seeded, and very acidic providing longer storage ability.

Lemons

Lisbon

Lisbon lemon is a popular and widely cultivated variety of Citrus limon known for its classic tart flavor, high juice content, and bright yellow rind. Originating from Portugal, the Lisbon lemon tree is vigorous, thorny, and highly productive, often yielding fruit year-round, with peak harvests in winter and early spring. The fruit closely resembles the Eureka lemon in appearance and taste but is generally more cold-tolerant and slightly more acidic.
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Navelates

Cambria

The Cambria navelate orange is a type of late orange that is high in sugar, seedless and has a rich, juicy flavour which is delicious for eating out of hand. Fruit size is medium with an oval shape and has a small navel which is often concealed. It is a top-quality orange with a smooth, deep orange coloured peel. Cambria has good shelf life.  

Navelates

Glen Ora Late Navels

The fruit is firm with a thinnish rind and mostly small navel ends. Closed core with a deep orange flesh colour. May have an internal navel and has no seeds. This variety is large in size, with a round shape, great taste and a good shelf life.

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Rustenburg

A late-season orange that is high in sugar, seedless and has a rich, juicy flavour. It is firm with tender flesh that provides a rich and pleasant flavour. It is a top-quality orange with a smooth, thin and deep orange coloured peel. Rustenburg is immediately recognisable by its oval shape. Rustenburg has exceptional shelf life. Rustenburg navelate is recognised as the primary eating orange throughout the world.

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Witkrans

The fruit shape is usually round to oval, with a smooth peel and a closed navel end. The fruit is juicy, seedless, with good internal quality and soft fibre. The Witkrans Late navel was chosen exclusively for its late ripening time, good fruit size, good internal fruit quality, high fruit production and firmness. Witkrans is rounder in shape compared with the oval shaped Rustenburg navelate. Witkrans has exceptional shelf life, similar to Rustenburg.

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Autumn Gold

Autumn Gold navelate is a late-season navel orange known for its excellent eating quality and extended harvest period. Developed to mature after standard navel oranges, Autumn Gold produces medium to large, seedless fruit with a bright orange rind and rich, sweet flavor. Its flesh is juicy and low in acidity, making it ideal for fresh consumption. The variety is valued for maintaining good internal quality and firmness well into the late season, allowing growers to extend their marketing window especially in the Western Cape.

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Robyn

Robyn Navelate is a high-quality, late-season variety known for its exceptional sweetness, low acidity, and rich flavor. It features a smooth, deep orange rind, a small navel, and juicy, seedless flesh. Maturing later than traditional navel oranges like the Washington, the Robyn Navelate extends the citrus season while maintaining excellent internal quality. Its long hang-time on the tree and superior eating characteristics make it a premium choice for fresh consumption in both local and export markets.
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Navels

Bahianina

The Bahianina navel orange is a type of sweet orange that is seedless and has a rich, juicy flavour that is delicious for eating out of hand. The fruit is medium sized, round-shaped and has a deep orange colour. It peels easily and the tender flesh provides a rich and pleasant flavour. Bahianina navel is an early season variety, recognised as a primary eating orange throughout the world. This early season variety has a moderate to good shelf life.

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Cara Cara

The Cara Cara orange boasts a trifecta of attributes. It has the external appearance of a true navel orange, only to reveal a rich red fleshy interior due to the presence of the pigment lycopene. It offers a succulent flavour, sweeter than navels and more comparable to tangerines, with robust citrus aromatics. It has a smooth, yet slightly pebbled, easy-to-peel skin and when zested, releases bright floral fragrances. This seedless navel is known to have a good shelf life.

Navels

Navelina

The fruit is medium to large in size and slightly pear-shaped with a small navel. This seedless variety matures very early and is juicy with a sweet flavour that is less sprightly than the Washington navel. Normal skin texture, yellow to orange colour appearance with a moderate shelf life.

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Palmer

The Palmer navel orange is a type of sweet orange that is seedless and has a rich, juicy flavour that is delicious for eating out of hand. The fruit is large, round-oval shaped and has a deep orange colour. It peels easily and the tender flesh provides a rich and pleasant flavour. Palmer navel is recognised as a primary eating orange throughout the world, with a good storage ability.

Navels

Fukumoto

Fukumoto navel oranges are medium to large in size, averaging 5-8 centimetres in diameter, and are spherical to oblate in shape with a rounded depression, also known as a navel, on the blossom stem end. Both the internal and external colour is yellow-orange and the navels are seedless. It is one of the earliest varieties in the UniChoice navels harvest and packing season. It has good shelf life.

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Tulegold

Early maturing seedless navel selection from California. This variety tends to be early ripening and heavy bearing. Taste and appearance are very similar to that of the Bahianina navel.  

Navels

Fischer

Fischer navels is an early-season orange known for its large size, bright orange skin, and exceptionally sweet, low-acid flavor. It features a classic navel at the blossom end and a smooth, easy-to-peel rind. With its juicy, seedless flesh and rich aroma, the Fischer navel is ideal for fresh eating. Harvested earlier than most other navel varieties, it offers a premium eating experience at the start of the citrus season, making it a favorite among citrus enthusiasts and growers.

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Washington

Washington navels is one of the most well-known and widely grown navel varieties, celebrated for its sweet, juicy, and seedless flesh. It has a thick, easy-to-peel bright orange rind and a distinctive “navel” at the blossom end. With its balanced flavor, firm texture, and excellent quality for fresh eating, the Washington navel remains a staple in both domestic and export citrus markets.

Navels

Dream Navels

Dream is a navel orange celebrated for its exceptionally sweet, low-acid flavor and smooth, easy-to-peel skin. Grown in sun-drenched orchards, Dream Navels are seedless, juicy, and bursting with vibrant citrus aroma. Their deep orange flesh and perfect balance of sweetness make them ideal for fresh eating, juicing, or elevating desserts.
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Valencia

Delta Seedless

The Delta Valencia is a type of juicing orange with round small to medium sized fruit. It is season dependant and seedless. Intense flavour makes it excellent for eating or juicing. It has a well-coloured, moderately thin, and very smooth rind. The fruit generally has a soft, succulent texture with a light orange flesh. Delta Seedless has exceptional shelf life.

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Midnight

The Midnight Valencia orange is a South African variety of the standard Valencia orange. Other characteristics of the Midnight Valencia orange include its somewhat oblong shape, good juicing quality, earlier ripening than other Valencias and its large, broad leaves. This variety grows larger, juicier fruit with virtually no seeds. It is easier to peel than the standard Valencia orange and produces good yields. This variety is popular as an out-of-hand eating orange as well as a juicing orange. It has exceptional shelf life.

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Turkey

This juicing orange is well-coloured, be it with a more yellow tinge than later Valencia varieties, with a characteristic cell-protruding rind and soft, succulent texture. High acid content combines with a high sugar content to produce a typical Valencia variety taste. The variety has little to no seeds. The variety is the earliest Valencia variety in the UniChoice packing and exporting season with good shelf life.

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Seedless

This is one of the most popular juicing oranges. The fruit generally has a soft texture with a light orange flesh. High acid and sugar content produce an orange ideal and known for its juice characteristics and taste. It is a medium-sized, seedless, orange-coloured fruit with possibly a tinge of green when ripe.

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Bennie

Bennie’s is a high-quality selection of the traditional Valencia variety, prized for its excellent juice content, rich flavor, and balanced sweetness with mild acidity. It has a smooth, medium-thick orange rind and few to no seeds, making it ideal for both juicing and fresh consumption. Maturing later in the season, the Bennie Valencia is known for its ability to hold well on the tree, extending the harvest period. Its vibrant juice color and refreshing taste make it a favorite among citrus growers and juice producers alike.
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