Varieties include oranges, tangerines, mandarins, limes and grapefruit. About 61 percent of total world exports of oranges and mandarins are of seedless varieties. Local agriculture produces mostly rice, mandarins and local salad onions. Many adherents to the Panthay cause were persecuted by the imperial mandarins. All characterized varieties commercially called mandarins are actually hybrids. They wrested one important city after another from the hands of' the Imperial mandarins. He firstly supported Persian and later the French guards and advisors against the Thai mandarins. The mandarins were the founders and core of the Chinese gentry. And of course there are the ducks, including Mandarins and Wood ducks. The Siamese native mandarins massacred the local Englishmen out of frustration. Other names are assistants or mandarins. The Academy, The Mandarins and The Blue Knights. It has nodding mandarins in niches and fearsome winged dragons, designed by Robert Jones. Royalty and senior mandarins were prescribed clothing made of the silk. Mandarins and their hybrids are sold under a variety of names.