Kingdom Plantae Rank Hybrid | Species C. × insitorum | |
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Scientific name Citrus sinensis × Poncirus trifoliata Similar Citrus, Citrumelo, Citrus reshni, Trifoliate orange, Rough lemon | ||
Harvesting and evaluating the hardy orange citrange in northern va dec 15 2012
The citrange is a citrus hybrid of the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange.
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The purpose of this cross was to attempt to create a cold hardy citrus tree (which is the nature of a trifoliate), with delicious fruit like those of the sweet orange. However, citranges are generally bitter.
Citrange is used as a rootstock for citrus in Morocco, but is not successful to prevent dry root rot, neither for exocortis disease.
Cultivars
There are several named citrange cultivars, including the 'Carrizo' citrange and the 'Troyer' citrange. Both resulted from a hybrid between the trifoliate orange and the Washington navel orange. There is also a cultivar called 'Rusk' which resulted from a cross between a Ruby orange and a trifoliate orange.
References
Citrange Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA