Flying dragon trifoliate (CRC 3330B)

Poncirus trifoliata (L.) Raf. RUTACEAE

CRC 3330B
PI 539769

Source

Received as seed from H. Yoshimura, Univ. of Osaka, Japan, 1958.

Parentage/origins

Parents unknown.

Rootstocks of accession

Carrizo citrange, C-35 citrange

Season of ripeness at Riverside

October to November

Notes and observations

Budwood came from a seedling variant at CRC. Growth habit is of a typical trifoliate orange.

Description from The Citrus Industry Vol. 1 (1967)

"Several dwarfed ornamental varieties are said to exist in the Orient. According to Swingle (Chap. 3), the most important and interesting of these is the Japanese hiryo or Flying Dragon variety, which he introduced to the United States in 1915. Grown primarily as a potted plant, this is a highly dwarfed variety with very small leaves, the leaflets of which are commonly reduced to linear filaments, and slender crooked branches armed with large, downward-curved spines. It is a curious monstrosity which he has accepted—unnecessarily, in the opinion of the writer—as the botanical variety monstrosa of T. Ito."