Curry Early sweet orange

Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck RUTACEAE

CRC 3347
PI 539610

Source

Received as budwood from John Carpenter, USDCS, Indio, CA, 1961.

Parentage/origins

R.B. Curry of Edinburg, Texas, obtained budwood from a seedling tree on a ranch north of Edinburg in 1926.

Rootstocks of accession

Carrizo citrange, C-35 citrange

Season of ripeness at Riverside

January to March

Notes and observations

Carpenter received budwood from USDA Station at Weslaco, Texas, 1958-60. Curry early sweet orange, Rio Farms variety block, R-11, T-9. Registered as psorosis free. Carl Waibel in 7th Ann Proc. Rio Grande Hort. Soo., 1953, p.20: This seedling produced an orange of larger size than the Hamlin and with the texture of Valencia. The Curry early produced a fruit of few seeds and early ripening, sweet in August. It may be a seedling selection of the Ruby orange.--Carpenter.

3/23/1987, EMN: NOT early; fruit still tart now. What happened?

2/8/1988, EMN: A typical seedy sweet orange. May be slightly early this season by my taste.