Orange de Nice sweet orange

Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck RUTACEAE

CRC 3624
PI 539613

Source

Received as a seedling of CRC #3276, 1966.

Parentage/origins

Parents unknown.

Rootstocks of accession

Carrizo citrange, C-35 citrange

Season of ripeness at Riverside

January to March

Notes and observations

Polyembryonic.

2/8/1988, EMN: Orange de Nice is listed in TCI as an acidless orange. Our accession is NOT an acidless orange. It is a typical seedy sweet orange of medium-early maturity.

Description from The Citrus Industry Vol. 1 (1967)

"This sugar orange, a variety of the French Riviera, is so similar to the Succari of Egypt and Meski of Tunisia as to be indistinguishable to the writer."