Dear all This is my first posting and I hope someone will see it especially. I'm in the UK and am keen after having put a rooted citrus cutting that was given to me when only a foot tall into the ground and amazingly it is now a beautiful tree 8ft tall and full of fruit as usual. It's obviously very hardy to have survived our winters for the past twenty years down to minus 8 C but the fruit is very bitter and the guy who gave it to me siad it was a seedling and thought it was a citrange but did not know exactly what the species was.. There is a photo of it on the UK website Home citrus growing and Mike Saalfeld the website owner who seems very much a keen expert says it may be a Dunstan Citrumelo but it may be one of the Citranges. I would very much like to know what it's name is exactly. The fruit never atains a size more than 60mm at it's widest but is numerous and there are clusters of them. The juice is rather yellow coloured and not prolific and very bitter with a slight but noticable off flavour. The pulp is scant with pointed thin seeds at centre. The fruit is always very smooth skinned with a thick white 'pith' which is very adherent. The leaves are trifoliate, unifoliate, and in between these two types of leaf but all have narrow petioles. When a fruit is cut cleanly in half and where the juice follows the knife the juice stains the pith yellow. Please can any one say what this tree is ???? Is it a Dunstan Citrumelo or is it one of the Citranges. By the way the seeds came originally from the USA. If any one would like free seeds or cuttings please feel free to ask.
Sounds like Poncirus trifoliata or a hybrid of it. http://www.mobot.org/gardeninghelp/plantfinder/plant.asp?code=E790 http://users.kymp.net/citruspages/trifoliates.html#rubidoux
Here's a link to the pictures: http://www.homecitrusgrowers.co.uk/citrumelos/citrumelonottingham.html
Troyer citrange perhaps? http://dunhagan_gardening.blogspot.com/2009/01/2008-southeastern-citrus-exposition_08.html Could also just be a chance hybrid seedling that's been propagated but never named.
Dear Saltcedar thank's for the very good and informative websites. Comparing our tree with all the exceptionaly clear photos our tree seems to match the Citrange C-35 because the fruit of the Citrumelo seems more pearshaped for want of a better discription whereas the fruit on our tree is distinctly more flattened at the apexes as is the C-35 Hybrid. I think due to the websites you've advised the search for the species name of our tree is very much narrowed.... Thanks Mick
I would be very happy to test the plants here in Southwest Germany. Do you have still any seeds of the citrus plant?
I would be happy to supply seeds as we have many at the moment-- the tree is full of fruit.. Have you seen the photos of our tree at--- Home citrus growers UK. The site is owned by Mike Saalfeld of the UK and he put the photo's on his site.He says that he has not heard of a Citrus flowering and fruiting in the UK apart from ours ! Please let me have your address & I'll send you the seeds. Please advise what you would like the seeds packed in a moist tissue or just in a sealed poythene bag or other ? I havn't sent any of these seeds any where as yet so I'm new to this. I've got cuttings of this hybrid rooting at this moment and they look healthy after 2 weeks in the propogator. Please let me know if you want one when they have roots. Do you want to send me an email direct ---m.hall14@ntlworld.com
I have seen the photos. Thank you for the message! I am interested in a lot of seeds of this Citrus ;-) Here is my address: Markus Abel Von-Hutten-Str.2 D-76661 Philippsburg Germany I think sending in a sealed poythene bag will ve OK. I will also happy to receive a rooted cutting. I will send you also a Email ;-) Greetings Markus
