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Thornton tangelo

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

CRC 2013
PI 539697


Source

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


Parentage/origins

Parents unknown.


Rootstocks of accession

Carrizo citrange, C-35 citrange


Season of ripeness at Riverside

January to March


Notes and observations

4/1987, EMN: Medium sized orange fruit- rough & ugly, tart flavor, moderately seedy.


Availability

Not commercially available in California.

 

USDA Germplasm Resources Information Network page for Thornton tangelo

 

 

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Photos by David Karp and Toni Siebert, CVC.
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