Citrus hanayu Siebold ex Shirai

CRC 3469
PI 539198

Source

Received as seed from Okitsu, Shizuoka Pref., Japan (via W.P. Bitters), 1963.

Parentage/origins

Parents unknown.

Rootstocks of accession

Carrizo citrange, C-35 citrange

Season of ripeness at Riverside

Unknown at this time.

Notes and observations

EMN, 1986: A Yuzu type. Polyembryonic. This accession was heat treated about 1975 for moving out or tristeza quarantine to Lindcove. Subsequent Lindcove nucellar block tree was the bud source of 12B-36-9, 10.

EMN, 11/23/1988: A small, yellow, seedy fruit; very sour. Somewhat lemon-like in flavor.

Availability

Not commercially available in California.

USDA Germplasm Resources Information Network page for Citrus hanayu