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Everything a person could ever want to know about amanatsu oranges, a short google away. (pomelo appears in passing, "watson" does not)
https://specialtyproduce.com/produce/Amanatsu_Oranges_14989.php
Names used as-is:
https://artsandculture.google.com/story/how-purity-affects-the-flavor-of-natsu-mikan-ministry-of-agriculture-forestry-and-fisheries/8AUxKUc_N4MfLw?hl=en
Are you feeling thirsty?” Tsuboya inquires before clambering up an old Amanatsu tree to grab one of the large fruit.
Planted among the Natsumikan are Amanatsu, a closely related citrus but with fruit that is sweeter and of a somewhat milder acidity. Harvesting commences from January;
Check out the "amanatsu" marketing
https://japanshopping.org/search/items/detail/bath-time-with-amanatsu-orange
All (roughly) the same thing, and we have entries for all of them, some of which don't match each other:
カワノナツダイダイ（川野夏橙） 甘夏橙、甘夏蜜柑、甘夏柑、略して甘夏
甘夏 114873
甘夏柑 6274
甘夏蜜柑 429
カワノナツダイダイ too long for ngram db
川野夏橙 270
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanatsu
Amanatsu (甘夏) or natsumikan (ナツミカン(夏蜜柑)) is a yellowish orange citrus hybrid fruit, a group of cultivars of Citrus natsudaidai, which were discovered in 1740 in the Yamaguchi prefecture of Japan.
Names
Amanatsu (甘夏) means "sweet summer" in Japanese. In Japan, the fruit is known as kawano natsu daidai (カワノナツダイダイ（川野夏橙）), but also colloquially the amanatsu, amanatsu daidai (甘夏橙), amanatsukan (甘夏柑), and amanatsu mikan (甘夏蜜柑（甘夏みかん）)
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/カワノナツダイダイ
カワノナツダイダイ（川野夏橙）は、ミカン科ミカン属の柑橘類の一つ。...ナツダイダイの枝変わり種である[1][2][3][2]。
甘夏橙、甘夏蜜柑、甘夏柑、略して甘夏などとも呼ばれる。 |
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If a consensus is reached, the entry on 甘夏蜜柑 should look exactly like this one. There is a very strong tie with the non-甘 variety as well. (夏蜜柑)
See ngrams: "甘夏" is everywhere in grocery stores here, a later-season alternative to a 八朔 はっさく orange. This is the popular term that should probably be xref'd. I didn't find it especially sweet, in spite of the name... (it's apparently not so much "sweet" as "less sour than a natsumikan", which is known for being particularly sour)
We gloss 八朔 as
Hassaku orange (Citrus hassaku)
I see no reason to do anything differently here. This is principally a Japanese cultivar sold principally in Japan. Fruit & vegetable flavor profiles are not generally under our purview. If you google "amanatsu orange", you'll quite quickly get all the details you could ever want.
Glossed often as "watson pomelo" by old 和英辞典, this seems like a cruel conspiracy foisted on the Japanese, constantly writing amantsu(watson pomelo) as if anyone in the West had any idea what a "watson pomelo" was.
Good luck finding this name anywhere today. English wikipedia contains no explicit reference to such a thing, but an article on the "Arab Agricultural Revolution" has a footnote on historian Andrew Watson, saying:
"In support of his thesis, Watson charted the advance of seventeen food crops and one fiber crop that became important over a large area of the Mediterranean world during the first four centuries of Islamic rule (roughly the seventh through eleventh centuries C.E.)"[30] The food crops named by Watson were rice, sorghum, durum wheat, sugar cane, watermelon, aubergine (eggplant), spinach, artichoke, taro, sour orange (pomelo), lemon, lime, banana, plantain, mango, and coconut; the fibre was cotton."
so, there's a pomelo-named-after-Watson there.
Looks like the Japanese orange may have been marketed in India under the name "Watson Pomelo" in the 1940s and 50s:
Book search: 1948: Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research - Volume 7 - Page 82
Often under cultivation in the Punjab , the United Provinces , Central Provinces , and Madras under the name Watson pomelo . This is a cheap summer orange and may be valuable as a substitute for grapefruit . 24. C. nobilis Lour .
India again(10 years later, not going well):
Bombay (State) Department of Agriculture · 1958 · Snippet view
As regards the effect of various root - stocks it is seen that Gajanimma , Sohyndong and Kodur Jamburi have been the most outstanding while Satkara and Watson Pomelo are not satisfactory . Atlantia has produced dwarf plants . |