Tarocco
(Blood Orange)
Physical Features
Sicko Department
The Tarocco is mainly grown in Italy, where it originated. It is also the oldest known blood orange. Its flesh color is somewhere between that of the Sanguinelli and the Moro oranges.
Sweet Varieties ***** Sour Varieties ***** Blood Varieties Facts immediately after the orange type have been unmercifully ripped from Richard Ray and Lance Walheim's Citrus: How to Select, Grow and Enjoy from Horticultural Publishing Co., Inc. Facts used in the ranting paragraphs after the basic description are all true and from Citrus: How to Select, Grow and Enjoy, except for those obvious bits that are the Erin-madness. |
||