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The Murcott arose out of citrus pioneer Walter Tennyson Swingle's attempts to produce novel citrus hybrids. Its seed parent has been identified as the King tangelo; the pollen parent remains to be identified. [4] About 1913, he gave a hybrid tree he had produced at a US Department of Agriculture planting to R. D. Hoyt at Safety Harbor, Florida ...
Citrus myrtifolia, the myrtle-leaved orange tree, is a species of Citrus with foliage similar to that of the common myrtle. It is a compact tree with small leaves and no thorns which grows to a height of 3 m (10 ft) and can be found in Malta , Libya , the south of France , and Italy (primarily in Liguria , typically Savona , and also in Tuscany ...
Illicium: anise-trees; Illicium floridanum: Florida anise-tree Illiciaceae (anise-tree family) Illicium parviflorum: yellow anise-tree Illiciaceae (anise-tree family) Juglandaceae: walnut family; Carya: hickories and pecans; Carya aquatica: water hickory Juglandaceae (walnut family) 401 Carya cordiformis: bitternut hickory Juglandaceae (walnut ...
The state cut down private fruit trees and offered gift cards as compensation. It didn't solve the citrus canker problem. When the Government Came for Florida's Orange Trees
Citrus reshni also known as Cleopatra mandarin [1] is a citrus tree that is commonly used in agriculture as a rootstock of different cultivated species of citrus, mostly orange, grapefruit, tangerine and lemon. It originated in India and later was introduced to Florida from Jamaica in the mid-nineteenth century. [2]
The Dancy tangerine (zipper-skin tangerine, kid-glove orange) is one of the oldest and formerly most popular American citrus varieties, but is now rarely sold. [3] The Dancy originated in 1867, as a seedling grown by Colonel Francis L. Dancy. [1] [4] It was called tangerine because its parent, the Moragne tangerine, was believed to come from ...
More than 60,000 healthy, uninfected trees were destroyed in Orange County between 2002 and 2006 as part of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services' efforts to eradicate citrus ...
The Fairchild tangerine is a cross between a Clementine mandarin and an Orlando tangelo. The skin is thin with a deep orange color, is somewhat pebbly, and doesn't peel as easily as some other tangerines. It is juicy with a rich and sweet flavour and contains seeds. [1]