San Jacinto tangelo

Citrus tangelo J.W. Ingram & H.E. Moore

CRC 2011
PI 539695

Source

Received as budwood from Date Gardens, Indio, CA, 1930.

Parentage/origins

Parents unknown.

Rootstocks of accession

Carrizo citrange, C-35 citrange

Season of ripeness at Riverside

December to February

Description from The Citrus Industry Vol. 1 (1967)

"Fruit medium-sized, round or obovate; commonly slightly necked; color orange-yellow; seedy. Rind relatively smooth, thin, fairly free-peeling; axis hollow. Flesh color pale orange-yellow; tender, very juicy; flavor sprightly and subacid. Maturity season early.

Tree vigorous and productive; leaves small to medium, oval-shaped, and pointed.

This variety originated at the U.S. Date and Citrus Station, Indio, California, as a seedling of an unnamed tangelo of grapefruit-tangerine (presumably Dancy) parentage from a pollination made by Swingle in Florida in 1899. Introduced in 1931, San Jacinto has never attained commercial importance. "