Mandarine sanguine mandarin

Citrus reticulata Blanco

CRC 3367

PI 105006

Photos by David Karp and Toni Siebert, CVC.  Photo rights.  

Source: Received as budwood from Ted Frolich, UCLA Variety Collection, 1960.

Parentage/origins: Parents unknown.Orginally developed at Station Experimentale de Marrakech, Morocco, 1934.

Rootstocks of accession: Carrizo citrange, C-35 citrange

Season of ripeness at Riverside: Unknown at this time.

Notes and observations:

Originally from Morocco (as seed).

3/1987, EMN: Most of fruit on ground. A large, rough, puffy fruit. This is not listed in TCI, Vol. I, but a Sanguigno (Sanguine in North Africa) is briefly described on pp 524 and it sounds like it may be this accession.

Availability: Not commercially available in California.

USDA Germplasm Resources Information Network page for Mandarin Sanguine