Yalaha tangelo

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

CRC 2559
PI 539700

Source

Received as budwood from CPB, 1934.

Parentage/origins

Yalaha is a Duncan grapefruit-Dancy tangerine hybrid made by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Florida in 1911 and introduced in 1931.

Rootstocks of accession

Carrizo citrange, C-35 citrange

Season of ripeness at Riverside

February to March

Notes and observations

EMN, 4/1987: Small fruit with very heavy crop on trees. Medium orange rind color, orange flesh, too tart even though many fruit have dropped, very seedy.

Description from The Citrus Industry Vol. 1 (1967)

Fruit medium-sized, oblate; base slightly depressed and somewhat furrowed; orange-colored; seedy; Rind [sic] pebbled and somewhat rough, medium-thick, slightly adherent; axis large and hollow. Flesh color pale orange; tender, juicy; flavor sprightly subacid. Late in maturity.

Tree vigorous and productive; leaves oval-shaped and pointed, resembling sweet orange.
Yalaha is a Duncan grapefruit-Dancy tangerine hybrid made by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Florida in 1911 and introduced in 1931. The variety has not achieved importance.