Okitsu Wase Satsuma Mandarin Budwood

Citrus unshiu.

Okitsu-wase is a popular cultivar, 2nd in planted acreage volume, of Satsuma citrus in Japan. Okitsu Wase is considerably better coloured at the end of November than Kawano Wase. Many fruits of Kawano Wase are still partially green in California weather at this time. Flavour is similar; sweet and ready to eat, but Okitsu Wase may be slightly better flavoured.

Fruit somewhat more oblate than Miyagawa, but averages higher in sugar content and matures a week or so earlier.  Trees are also more vigorous.

Rootstocks of accession: Carrizo citrange, C-35 citrange.

Season of ripeness at Riverside, California: October to December.

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