Perrine lime hybrid

Citrus hybrid

CRC 2458
PI 539205

Source

Received as budwood from CPB, 1931

Parentage/origins

Perrine is West Indian lime X Genoa lemon.

Rootstocks of accession

Yuma Ponderosa lemon

Season of ripeness at Riverside

October to December

Notes and observations

EMN, 11/9/1987: Cutting was labelled "48848-Lemonime" (as rec'd in 1931). CPB inventory lists 44848 as Perrine lime.Fruit examined- looks like a lemon/lime hybrid should.

Description from The Citrus Industry Vol. 1 (1967)

"Perrine originated as a hybrid made by W. T. Swingle and associates of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1909 and was named and described in 1931."