Biondo Riccio sweet orange

Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck RUTACEAE

CRC 3630
PI 230379

Source

Received as budwood from Dr. Joe Furr, USDCS, Indio, CA, 1968.

Parentage/origins

Parents unknown.

Rootstocks of accession

Carrizo citrange, C-35 citrange

Season of ripeness at Riverside

December to February

Notes and observations

2/8/1988, EMN: This is a very old Italian variety which has not been planted for many years. Trees small for age; fruit a typical seedy sweet orange.

Description from The Citrus Industry Vol. 1 (1967)

"Fruit large, globose; base slightly flattened and deeply furrowed; apex slightly depressed; seedy. Well-colored at maturity. Rind medium-thick and surface coarsely pebbled and somewhat rough. Flesh juicy and flavor pleasant when fully ripe.Medium early in maturity and ships reasonably well.

Tree moderately vigorous, highly productive, and hardy.

Another very old Italian variety of unknown origin, Biondo Riccio has not been planted for years but is still important in some of the oldest Italian districts. "