Citrus aurantium L.  

CRC 628
PI 539176
VI 95

Source

Received as budwood from Murphy Oil Co. nursery, Whittier, CA, 1914.

Parentage/origins

Parents unknown

Rootstocks of accession

Carrizo citrange, C-35 citrange

Season of ripeness at Riverside

January to March

Notes and observations

12/1939, HJW: Selected as most typical and normal type of the sour orange. This in the rootstock experiment and elsewhere referred to as the Standard sour which becomes the variety name. Buds selected by Webber Mertz & Thomas. 

12/24/1988, EMN: Fruit is a typical sour orange.  

Availability

Commercially available in California through the Citrus Clonal Protection Program. Click here to order budwood.

USDA Germplasm Resources Information Network page for Standard sour orange