Olinda nucellar Valencia orange

Citrus sinensis L. Osbeck

CRC 2750

PI 539656

Photos by Toni Siebert (left and center) & David Karp (right), CVC,  4/11/2008. Photo rights. Carrizo, 25 year old tree.  

Source: Received as budwood from Ollie Smith, Olinda, Ca, 1939.

Parentage/origins: The original tree was located in Mr. Smith's backyard, house #43, owned by oil company which has developed fields at mouth of Carbon Canyon (Santa Fe R.R. actual owners).

Rootstocks of accession: Carrizo citrange, C-35 citrange

Season of ripeness at Riverside: March to July

Notes and observations:

Samples of fruit brought to the Citrus Experiment Station by Mr. Smith were especially smooth, fine quality on outside, thin-skinned, full of juice. Fair to good quality when sampled in April 1939, size about "176". Trees inspected in April by Dr. Webber and L.D.S. probably 10 years old and growing under poor conditions.

Description from The Citrus Industry Vol. 1 (1967):

" This California selection is a chance seedling, presumably of Valencia, found by H. J. Webber and L. D. Batchelor of the Citrus Research Center, Riverside, in the dooryard of O. Smith at Olinda in 1939 and released in 1957.  It is indistinguishable from Frost Valencia and hence is considered to be of nucellar origin.  Olinda is currently popular in California."
 

Availability: This accession of Olinda Valencia is not commercially available in California.

USDA Germplasm Resources Information Network page for Olinda nucellar Valencia orange

CVC fruit quality data for Olinda nucellar Valencia orange

Bibliography:

Citrograph 61(2): 53-60, Dec. 1975.