I didn't know, but I thought they were different. wikipedia has this to say:
Historically, the name tangerine comes from Tangier, Morocco, the port from which the first tangerines were shipped to Europe. The adjective tangerine, from Tangier or Tanger, was first recorded as an English word in 1710. A popular alternative to tangerines are clementines, which are also a variant of the mandarin orange.
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Date: 2008-01-02 11:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-03 01:02 am (UTC)Historically, the name tangerine comes from Tangier, Morocco, the port from which the first tangerines were shipped to Europe. The adjective tangerine, from Tangier or Tanger, was first recorded as an English word in 1710.
A popular alternative to tangerines are clementines, which are also a variant of the mandarin orange.
So I guess they are sort of cousins. :)