Bouquet de Fleurs Sour Orange Budwood

Citrus aurantium L.

This heavy-flowering variety constitutes an attractive ornamental in California, lending itself especially well to use as a hedge plant.  In California, it is characterized by small tree size with a spreading top consisting of thornless branchlets with short internodes (brachytic in nature) and dense clustered foliage.  The leaves are small, oval, and round or blunt-pointed with short wingless petioles.  The fruits are small, somewhat oblate, moderately pebbled and well-colored, with medium-thick rind, solid axis, and few seeds. 

Rootstocks of accession:  Yuma Ponderosa lemon.

Season of ripeness at Riverside, California:  January to March.

Prepared by the Givaudan Citrus Variety Collection at The University of California Riverside.