Berna lemon

Citrus limon L. Burm.f.

CRC 3590
PI 539307

Source

Received as budwood from Dr. Joe Furr, USDCS, Indio, Calif., 1965.

Parentage/origins

Parents unknown. Originally from Spain.

Rootstocks of accession

Yuma Ponderosa lemon.

Season of ripeness at Riverside

Crop comes mainly in winter but holds well into summer.

Notes and observations

12/2/1987, EMN: Fruit examined- a market type lemon- large fruit this year.

Description from The Citrus Industry Vol. 1 (1967)

"Fruit medium in size, oval to broad-elliptical; neck or collar short; nipple well developed. Seed content variable, but usually few to none. Color bright yellow at maturity. Rind medium-thick (thinner in summer crop); surface somewhat pebbled, rough; tightly adherent. Crop comes mainly in winter but holds well into summer, with undesirably large fruit, however.

Tree very vigorous, upright-spreading, large, and productive.

According to Gonzalez-Sicilia (1963) Berna is by far the most important Spanish variety, constituting more than 90 per cent of the acreage in the Levant. It is grown also in Algeria and Morocco. In California, both the fruit and tree are much like the Lisbon."