Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck

CRC 3829
PI 539553
VI 265 

Source

Received as budwood from USDCS, Indio, CA, via CCPP, 1965.

Parentage/origins

Parents unknown.

Rootstocks of accession

Carrizo citrange, C-35 citrange

Season of ripeness at Riverside

December to January

Notes and observations

EMN, 3/23/1987: Similar to Vaccaro (CRC 3242) except that flecks of blood are more frequent and more distributed throughout pulp. Not a highly pigmented blood orange.

EMN, 2/4/1988: Like a sweet orange in flavor, seeds few to moderate in number. See blood orange comparison chart on back of CRC 3152 accession card.

Availability

Commercially available in California through the Citrus Clonal Protection Program. Click here to order budwood.

USDA Germplasm Resources Information Network page for Sanguinello a pignu blood orange