Satsuma

The name of this type of mandarin originated from the Japanese province of Satsuma and was introduced to the Anglo-Saxon world via an American diplomat in the 1870s. Up to a million trees were exported to the United States, and American towns in Alabama, Texas and Louisiana were even named after the fruit. In the 1920s, Jackson County called itself the Satsuma Capital of the World, but the satsuma business came to an end after excessively cold periods wiped out the business in the 1930s. Now the focus of global satuma production is in Southern Japan. Here there are ideal conditions for the cultivation of high-quality satsumas.