China #3 Satsuma mandarin

Citrus unshiu Marcovitch

CRC 4115

VI 654

Photos by Toni Siebert, CVC. Photo rights.  

Source: Received as budwood from Hubei, PR, China, 2002.

Parentage/origins: Parents unknown. Accession was brought into China via Japan.

Rootstocks of accession: Carrizo citrange, C-35 citrange

Season of ripeness at Riverside: February to June

Notes and observations:

8/2006, RRK: This line was "brought back into China from Japan and has a name, which could not be translated into English by the collector" (letter from WA Dozier, Chair, Auburn Univ Dept of Horticulture, to DJ Gumpf, 08-28-1995). Collector rated tree vigor and fruit quality as "good" and cold hardiness as "very good".

Availability: Commercially available in California through the Citrus Clonal Protection Program.

USDA Germplasm Resources Information Network page for China #3 Satusma mandarin