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Citrus yuko hort ex. Tanaka

Yuko

CRC 3146
PI 539713


Source

Received as seed from H. Yoshimura, Univ. of Osaka, Japan, 1956.

 

Parentage/origins

Received as open-pollinated seed. Thought to be a hybrid of Citrus ichangensis x Citrus reticulata (unknown cultivar).


Rootstocks of accession

Carrizo citrange, C-35 citrange


Season of ripeness at Riverside

Unknown at this time.


Notes and observations

Notes from T. Tanaka in CITROLOGIA, pg. 76, Osaka, 1961: "YUZU hybrid character, fr size good sized Satsuma, shape resembles Kunembo- rough, orange-yellow, Calyx provides 1g disk ring, rind 5.0 mm, ht 5.0, wid 6.3 cm, pulp poor taste, apex rounded, base pointed, 8 seeds, seeds green polyembryonic. 2/26/88- Fruit way past maturity now, but Tanaka's description (see above) seems pretty good for this accession.--EMN.


Availability

Not commercially available in California.

 

USDA Germplasm Resources Information Network page for Citrus yuko

 

 

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Photos by David Karp and Toni Siebert, CVC.
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