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Olivelands sour orange

Citrus aurantium L.

CRC 2717
PI 539164


Source

Received as budwood from from Olivelands, date unknown. Limited information available.


Parentage/origins

Parents unknown.


Rootstocks of accession

Carrizo citrange, C-35 citrange


Season of ripeness at Riverside

January to March


Notes and observations

6/1986, EMN: Sour orange, very prolific. from root cutting. old vigorous trees at Olivelands. This accession was discarded from the variety collection about 1979; but Dr. W.P. Bitters thought it should be reinstated and so collected budwood from the original source for the trees planted in field in 1985.

2/26/1988, EMN: Appears to be a typical sour orange.

3/13/2008, DK & TS: Productive, typical sour orange, but rind seems thicker than average. 


Availability

Not commercially available in California.


USDA Germplasm Resources Information Network page for Olivelands sour orange

 

 

 

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Photos by David Karp and Toni Siebert, CVC.
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