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JSea

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Citrus ID (pomelo / mandarin hybrid with a bit of a neck)
« on: June 17, 2024, 05:05:49 AM »
Hmmm. Trying to identify this unknown Citrus.

It peels reasonably easy even though the fruit was unripe. The juice vesicles are firm, like a pomelo, and the membranes are very thick. The fruit was not fully ripe, but tasted sort of like weak grapefruit / mandarin flavour, slightly more sweet than sour.
Approximately 30x seeds in one fruit, and up to 12 segments.
Zest smells kind of 'spicy' and more like an orange/grapefruit (not lemon).

Thinking it might be either kinkoji, sanbokan or possibly ujukitsu. Possibly there's other options as well.













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Re: Citrus ID (pomelo / mandarin hybrid with a bit of a neck)
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2026, 12:48:27 PM »
From the shape and the taste with a little grapefruit bitterness I would say that is the Kinkoji/Bloomsweet. Cannot be Ujukistu, it would be more elongated egg-like and mostly sweet with just a little sour hint.

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Re: Citrus ID (pomelo / mandarin hybrid with a bit of a neck)
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2026, 04:54:42 PM »
Kinkoji, Marumero
Citrus obovoidea hort. ex I. Takah. RUTACEAE
CRC 3465
PI 539458

https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc3465

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Re: Citrus ID (pomelo / mandarin hybrid with a bit of a neck)
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2026, 04:57:57 PM »
I have Sanbokan, the fruit does not look like that, it has a neck lick sumo.

https://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=45969.msg456210#msg456210
« Last Edit: January 13, 2026, 05:55:09 PM by 70Malibu »

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Re: Citrus ID (pomelo / mandarin hybrid with a bit of a neck)
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2026, 04:04:28 AM »
Thanks for the extra opinions folks. It's also my current conclusion that it's most likely kinkoji.

One thing I can add is that it seemed to be relatively weak when grown as seedlings - all of them died!! I grafted one to trifoliata and it's still alive but pretty slow growing so far.
I note the UCR link says "an excellent quick decline indicator for seedling yellows". Relatively mild strains of CTV are present almost everywhere in New Zealand, so I wonder if it could've been that.