Citrangequat sp. 'Thomasville'
Price:
20 €
Price without VAT:
17,86 €
Availability:
Skladem
Weight:
2 kg
- It originated in the USA in 1909 as a cross between the oval kumquat F. margarita (Lour.) Swingle and citrange.
- Has the same parentage as 'Telfair' and first spawned in Thomasville.
- Due to the size of the fruits, which are edible, it is gaining popularity, it is the most fertile of the citrus quats.
- The tree is very tall, upright, thorny, evergreen.
- Leaves of different shapes, simple, mostly trifoliate, narrow, stiff, with a little winged petiole.
- Fruits of the shape and size of a hen's egg (3-5 cm), sometimes spherical or flattened.
- They appear at the end of long shoots in such numbers that the branches typically bend downward.
- Yellow-orange carpels slightly wavy, very thin.
- Flesh juicy, sour before fully ripe, sweet when ripe, edible, very juicy.
- It has few seeds, only 2-6. It is extremely frost-resistant, when grown in open ground with suitable protection for cold locations down to -12°C, it can be grown in cold greenhouses.
- In case of late frost damage, they grow a second time and set flowers. It is suitable as a rootstock for cold wintering and growing dwarf varieties.
- plant grafted onto Poncirus trifoliata rootstock