>>>We call tangerines - mandarines. BTW, melons and cantaloupes we call by a collective name of "bostan" - do you have any idea why? The word sounds Turkish to me.
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>>That's interesting. Around here, we refer to tangerines and mandarins separately. I think the tangerine is a type of mandarin orange, but usually the tangarines we get have a redder rind than the mandarins.
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>Oh, there's a difference? Well, even if we ever had tangerines back home, nobody bothered to say they should be named differently. They look the same to me, and taste the same as mandarines.

And what about clementines. Do you treat them as a different species? I admit that if I saw them all sitting together, I might not know which is which. But when they're still in the labelled box, or in the labelled bin at the supermarket, it's easy to tell the difference.

In fact, the mandarins we get around here only seem to be available around the xmas season, and they are usually from China. But they sure are tasty.