Troyer Citrange Trifoliate Hybrid Budwood

x Citroncirus sp.

Citrus sinensis 'Washington' sweet orange x Ponciris trifoliata. Open pollinated seedling.

Fruit small, oblate to spherical; smooth and nearly glabrous; color light orange.  Rind medium-thick, with numerous oil glands; tightly adherent.  Segments 9 to 10 and axis solid.  Flesh color light yellow; juicy; flavor strongly acid and bitter.  Seeds numerous, plump, and highly polyembryonic.  Season of maturity early.

Tree vigorous, upright-spreading, and medium-large with rather slender, thorny branchlets; foliage moderately dense, evergreen to semi-evergreen.  Leaves dark green, medium in size, and mainly trifoliolate, occasionally unifoliolate.  Productive and hardy.

The rise of this rootstock to prominence in California has been spectacular.  Within less than twenty-five years from the first field trial it has become the rootstock most employed and is much in demand elsewhere.

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

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

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