Citrus reticulata Blanco

CRC 3956
PI 539534
VI 523 (No longer active)

Source

Received as budwood from South Africa, 1985.

Parentage/origins

Novelty x Ellendale mandarin hybrid

Rootstocks of accession

Carrizo citrange

Season of ripeness at Riverside

Unknown.

Notes and observations

Produced and selected by Dr. J.H. de Lange in South Africa in 1980. Has only borne limited quantities of fruit to date, so not possible to comment on internal quality. Rind texture, however, is excessively coarse.--Info. from A.T.C. Lee.

Availability

Not commercially available in California.

USDA Germplasm Resources Information Network page for Novelty x Ellendale mandarin hybrid