Citradia hybrid (CRC 1436)

X Citroncirus spp. RUTACEAE

CRC 1436
PI 539833

Source

Received as a cutting from W.T. Swingle, USDA, 06/1924.

Parentage/origins

Reported to be a trifoliate and sour orange hybrid.

Rootstocks of accession

Carrizo citrange, C-35 citrange

Season of ripeness at Riverside

October to November

Notes and observations

July 1961: Seedling variability count of the following citradias: No. 1437- least variable; 1436- next; 1438- greatest variability. Citradias are trifoliate X sour orange hybrids.

EMN, 11/21/1988: The 3 citradias (this and CRC 1437 & 1438) are all very different from each other.

Description from The Citrus Industry Vol. 1 (1967)

"Although remarkable different from Citrus in nearly all respects, Poncirus hybridizes freely with the citrus species. Because of its outstanding cold-hardiness, it was early used in the citrus breeding program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Beginning in Florida in 1897 and continuing for several decades, many crosses were made between the trifoliate orange and citrus species and some with other genera. From this work came a series of bigeneric hybrids—the citranges, citrumelos, citrandarins, citremons, citradias, and citrumquats—a few of which are of horticultural importance or promise."