Jeruk Manis

Citrus aurantium, C. nobilis, or CV sinensis (also known simply as jeruk; another Javanese name is jeruk keprok). When you are shopping in the pasar you do not worry overmuch about Latin names or fine distinctions between species. Manis means ‘sweet’, and these oranges are very much what a European, brought up on produce from Israel, South Africa, North Africa or Spain, understands by the word ‘orange’. Many of them, however, have thin, loose skins and are closer to a tangerine or a clementine.