Planted today Feb 7

As you can see succulents have taken over in the last 2 years. I'm cutting back on them now to make room for citrus. These are just some of them.

What does it say on the tag?

The tag says red Navel Orange.

I'm sorry, I don't understand your question or concern. Are you saying there's no such thing as a 'Red Navel Orange' as it is labeled?...and therefore it must be labeled wrong? What is the company?

UCR has a Shahani Red navel orange listed on their site. But it's probably quite rare.

Most likely a Cara Cara, their popularity has soared in the last few years. They’re pretty common nowadays at nurseries. Great tasting fruit!

Evan

Dave- it's from Record Buck Farms FL. I was just wondering which red navel it could be. They are usually more specific with their labelling but not with this one.

Thanks Evan, I am looking forward to this. I have to stop buying oranges. I have four varieties now.

March 20

Well the weeds are growing... lol and It's starting to push out new branches.The yellowing in from when I bought it. It will go away when I start fertilizing.

It's starting to grow

March 29

I'll call it a cara cara

Matt three years ago I got an exact tree that looks exactly like yours with the exact same label and the exact same pot But mine was a little larger. Anyways I can’t tell you about the fruit as it’s dropped all of it during my repots and it’s just now becoming vigorous again and holding two fruits I’m still awaiting for it to ripen. Will update you when I decide to try it. Beautiful tree though matt good find! :)

Thanks Jan for the kind words and experience on yours! That's a beautiful plant now. Here's hoping you get a ripe fruit and my tree becomes a third of that monster!! Stay safe!

Matt

The Cara Cara is going nuts

May 2