Description
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A citrange is a hybrid between an orange and a trifoliate orange. A citradia is a hybrid between a sour orange and a trifoliate orange. Their taste is similar to a sour orange but more complex and bitter.
Morton is a hybrid between the Washington navel orange and trifoliate orange. Fruit quality is fairly good and the taste is similar to a cross between a grapefruit and navel orange.
Benton, Rusk, C-35, and Conestoga 010 and 026 are hybrids between the Ruby blood orange and trifoliate orange. Rusk has okay fruit quality but can be bitter some years. C-35 has a fairly good taste but a strange numbing effect on the mouth. Conestoga 010 and 026 are F2 hybrids that strongly resemble trifoliate orange; 010 has less resin and 026 has more orange flavor.
Tai Tri is a hybrid between the Nansho Daidai sour orange aka Taiwanica lemon and trifoliate orange. The fruit is sour/bitter but good for lemonade.
Trifeola is a hybrid between the Minneola tangelo and trifoliate orange. The fruit is supposedly good quality but ripens very late.
These plants are recommended for growing outdoors in plant hardiness zones 7-10 or 5-9 for Conestoga 010 and 026. To find out your plant hardiness zone, use this link: https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/
Rootstocks for 1 quart and 1 gallon plants are: trifoliate orange, Flying Dragon, and Sacaton citrumelo.
