Frost nucellar Valencia orange

Citrus sinensis L. Osbeck

CRC 3031
PI 539660
VI 240

Source

Produced at the Citrus Research Center, Riverside, California, 1915.

Parentage/origins

Frost nucellar Valencia is a nucellar seedling selection made by H.B. Frost.

Rootstocks of accession

Carrizo citrange, C-35 citrange

Season of ripeness at Riverside

March to July

Notes and observations

11/1989, EMN: Seed obtained from Rubidoux, Ca. A typical Valencia. Has lost popularity in recent years and is little used now.

Description from The Citrus Industry Vol. 1 (1967)

"Frost Valencia is a nucellar seedling derived about 1915 by H. B. Frost of the Citrus Research Center, Riverside, and released in 1952. Exceptionally vigorous and productive, it is the oldest of the California nucellar budline selections and currently the most popular."