Citrus megaloxycarpa hybrid

Bor-tenga

CRC 3241
PI 539446

Source

Received as seed from Fruit Research Station, Burnihat Assam, India, 1957.

Parentage/origins

Parents unknown.

Rootstocks of accession

Carrizo citrange, C-35 citrange

Season of ripeness at Riverside

December to January

Notes and observations

2/1988, EMN: Large, vigorous, open growing trees. Leaves large, citron-like in appearance. Young growth deep purple. Fruits look like a medium to medium/large citron. Rind yellow, rough, medium thick. Moderately seedy to seedy. Flesh pale yellow, almost white, coarse, not very juicy, sour. Looks like it could be pure citron to me; but is much more vigorous than any other citrons in our collection. So let's house it in the citron hybrids.

3/8/1988, EMN: Took fruit to Dr. Bitters for consultation. This looks some what like C. megaloxycarpa but cannot be true since C. meg. is mono-embryonic and this accession came to Ted Frolich (UCLA) as seed. C. meg. is listed as a sour pummelo in Battacharya (1966). Dr. Bitters says we should discard this accession and try to get true C. megalox. Clonally at some time in the future.