Lo Porto lemon

Citrus limon L. Burm.f.

CRC 3090
PI 539301

Source

Received as seed from Acireale, Sicily, Italy, 1962.

Parentage/origins

Parents unknown.

Rootstocks of accession

Yuma Ponderosa lemon

Season of ripeness at Riverside

Unknown at this time.

Notes and observations

This was seedling #2, no record re single or double seedling. This accession has a fleshy calyx.

Note by visitors from Italy, 1985: Not grown much in Italy.

12/2/1987: Fruit examined- a market type lemon.

Description from The Citrus Industry Vol. 1 (1967)

"The fruit of this new Italian variety is characterized by a globose form and a very large, fleshy calyx. Lo Porto was found in Altarello di Baida, a village in the Conco d'Oro district of Sicily, during the course of a mal secco resistance survey. It was first described by Crescimanno (1953), and is said to have considerable resistance."