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Fuya Menuda sweet orange

Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck RUTACEAE

CRC 3787 
PI 539619


Source

Received as seed from Mr. Guillermo Colon, Majorca, Balearic Island, Spain via Beltsville, 1978.


Parentage/origins

Parents unknown.


Rootstocks of accession

Carrizo citrange, C-35 citrange


Season of ripeness at Riverside

January to March


Notes and observations

An ornamental dwarf citrus. Polyembryonic. 

11/12/1986, EMN: W.P. Bitters says this is probably NOT Fuya Menuda 


2/8/1988, EMN: Our accession (3787) is probably NOT Fuya Menuda, it is a very large tree, one of the largest in the row. Fruit is a sweet orange but does not appear promising: size is slightly small, slightly rough rind slightly puffy, very seedy, slightly tart now.


Description from The Citrus Industry Vol. 1 (1967)

" An interesting Spanish variety, apparently originating in the Balearic Islands, Fuya Menuda is highly ornamental because all parts of the plant—tree, leaves, and fruit—are markedly reduced in size.  It constitutes the only truly dwarf sweet orange variety known to the writer. "


Availability

Not commercially available in California.

 

USDA Germplasm Resources Information Network page for Fuya menuda sweet orange

 

 

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Photos by David Karp and Toni Siebert, CVC.
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