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Bitter orange
📍 Dominican University, Grand Avenue, San Rafael, CA, 94901
🗓 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.
In front of the convent is a very large Seville Orange tree. The campus was formed from the convent soon after colonization by the Spanish, so this tree is probably at least 100 years old, and in July, full of the magnificent bitter Seville Oranges needed for the best marmalade!
There wasn't really anyone to "ask", though I did find one of the local caretakers, and he said please take them, all we do is clean them up. So I brought some marmalade to the nuns who live at the convent, and have since collected loads without incident.
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