The tangerine is the classic deep-orange, tart-sweet mandarin — the reddish-skinned, zingy easy-peel citrus of Dancy, Sunburst and honey (murcott) types. A commercial and culinary sub-group of the mandarin (Citrus reticulata), it is set apart by its darker, more orange-red rind and its brighter, more acidic bite than a mild clementine or satsuma. It is the fruit that gave its name to the whole loose-skinned tribe in the English-speaking world, having first reached the West through the Moroccan port of Tangier.