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Bitter orange
📍 1125 Catharine Street, Philadelphia
🗓 Season: November · December · January · February
🔍 When is it ripe?
Turns fully orange when ripe. Flesh is very sour and seedy — not for fresh eating. Excellent for marmalade, liqueur (Cointreau), and fragrant peel. Harvest when colour is deep orange.
This is a 60-year-old VERY bitter orange (poncirus trifoliata). No way you can eat these off the tree, but we've used it to make marmalade very successfully but probably won't again. If you see the fruit is ripe and want to harvest the tree, ring bell and ask. Or feel free to grab what you can from section of tree that hangs over garden wall onto Sartain st. You need a lot of the oranges to make marmalade, though!
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