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The pistil of citrange Rusk

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BorisR:
Who has a fruiting citrange Rusk? I'm wondering what his fully formed pistils look like. Mine had a few flowers for the first time last year. There were no pestles inside at all. There are a lot more flowers this year. The first flowers have already opened. Two of them didn't have pistils, one of them has a pistil, but it doesn't seem to be fully formed. Here is a photo of a flower without petals and stamens.

David Kipps:
I don't have any Rusk, but your picture looks a lot like flowers that I had on several of my hybrids this spring following a late freeze that killed a lot of 3" new growth.  Earlier flowers and later flowers looked normal, but these were malformed, much like your picture.  I'm blaming it on cold damage during a critical development stage.

BorisR:
Thank you, David. Let's see if later flowers will be better shaped.

mikkel:

BorisR:
Mikkel, thank you! What I showed above is the best pestle. Next, the flowers went without pistils at all. Probably insufficient hormone levels for full formation. Hopefully next year...

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