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Rotuma Island sweet orange

Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck RUTACEAE

CRC 3867
PI 539631
VI 317


Source

Received as seed from Rotuma Island, via Capt. Polkinghorn & W. Reuther, 1961.


Parentage/origins

Parents unknown.


Rootstocks of accession

Carrizo citrange, C-35 citrange


Season of ripeness at Riverside

January to March


Notes and observations

1986, EMN: This is a very light blood orange, only a few light flecks of blood color are detected very occasionally.

3/23/1987, EMN: No blood coloration at all this season.

2/4/1988, EMN: Cut 10 fruit and found no blood coloring at all; also no blush on rind. This appears to be a typical mid-season seedy sweet orange of good flavor.


Availability

Commercially available in California through the Citrus Clonal Protection ProgramClick here to order budwood.


USDA Germplasm Resources Information Network page for Rotuma Island sweet orange

 

 

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Photos by David Karp and Toni Siebert, CVC.
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