Citrus sinensis L. Osbeck

CRC 1518
PI 539653

Source

Received as budwood from Limoneira Ranch, Santa Paula, Ca, 1925.

Parentage/origins

Parents unknown.

Rootstocks of accession

Carrizo citrange, C-35 citrange

Season of ripeness at Riverside

March to July

Notes and observations

1985, EMN: Very coarse, convoluted. This accession had psorosis and exocortis, removed by shoot tip grafting

06/1989, EMN: Fruit compared with Olinda Valencia: Coarseness not well defined. Fruit this season is smaller, more re-greened than Olinda, not especially coarse; flesh texture may be slightly coarse, but not very.

4/11/2008, DK & TS: Fruit is not very coarse.

Availability

Not commercially available in California.

USDA Germplasm Resources Information Network page for Coarse Valencia orange