A small citrus tree usually thorny, with slender twigs, broad-or slender-lanceolate leaves having minute, rounded teeth, and narrowly-winged petioles. The flowers are borne singly or a few together in the leaf axils. The fruit is oblate, the peel bright-orange or red-orange when ripe, loose, separating easily from the segments. Seeds are small, pointed at one end, green inside.

Antiemetic, aphrodisiac, astringent, laxative and tonic (fruit); analgesic, antiasthmatic, anticholesterolemic, anti-inflammatory, antiscorbutic, antiseptic, antitussive, carminative, expectorant, stomachic (pericarp); carminative and expectorant (endocarp); analgesic and carminative (seed)

Floridata
Mandarin Orange
Plants for a Future

1,8-cineole, acetaldehyde, alanine, alpha-carotene, alpha-linolenic acid, alpha-phellandrene, alpha-pinene, alpha-terpinene, alpha-terpineol, alpha-tocopherol, arginine, ascorbic acid, asparagine, aspartic acid, benzyl-alcohol, beta-carotene, beta-elemene, beta-pinene, beta-sesquiphellandrene, beta-terpineol, carvone, caryophyllene, citric acid, citronellal, citronellol, delta-cadinene, folacin, gamma-aminobutyric acid, gamma-terpinene, geranial, geraniol, glutamic acid, glycine, histidine, humulene, limonene, linoleic acid, lutein, malic acid, methionine, myrcene, myristic acid, neral, nerol, niacin, oleic acid, oxalic acid, p-cymene, palmitic acid, pantothenic acid, perillaldehyde, phenyl-alanine, riboflavin, stearic acid, terpinen-4-ol, thiamin, thymol, tryptophan, tyramine, tyrosine, zeaxanthin (fruit); hesperidin (plant)

In the treatment of dyspepsia, gastro-intestinal distension, cough with profuse phlegm, hiccup and vomiting (pericarp); in the treatment of dyspepsia, gastro-intestinal distension, coughs and profuse phlegm (endocarp); in the treatment of pain in the chest and hypochondrium, gastro-intestinal distension, swelling of the liver and spleen and cirrhosis of the liver (unripened green exocarp); in the treatment of hernia, lumbago, mastitis and pain or swellings of the testes (seeds)