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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. 


Availability

Not commercially available in California.

 

USDA Germplasm Resources Information Network page for Yalaha tangelo

 

 

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Photos by David Karp and Toni Siebert, CVC
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