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JSea:
I was wondering if anyone has tasted Shunkokan and can comment on the flavour. I've heard varying reports that it tastes like a sweet lemon, to that it just tastes like an orange?
Also if anyone has tasted the peel that would also be great info.


Picture from a Japanese news segment about a grower of Shunkokan ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sU88t3QwrE )

Tintori also has some attractive pictures and description of it: https://www.oscartintori.it/en/prodotto/shunkokan-orange/

Shunkokan if you haven't heard about it is a rare Japanese Citrus, hardly grown at all. Genetic testing has found that it's a hybrid between an unknown pummelo/grapefruit seed parent, and a Yatsushiro pollen parent. Yatsushiro itself is a hybrid between a kunenbo and kishu and presents similar to a satsuma: https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc3880

Shunkokan has also been used as part of new rootstock breeding strategies in Florida, although I don't know why yet. Shunkokan was tested decades ago and found to be extremely tolerant of tristeza.

Radoslav:
Plant from Tintori nursery is SRA 771.
This accession came to the University of California via W.P. Bitters in 1.1. 1963 as a seed from Shizuoka pref., Shimizu-shi, Japan.
Catalogue number CRC 3476 citrus shunkokan.

In 1987 budwood was imported to SRA INRA-CIRAD France screenhouses. After declared as a disease free, it received SRA number 771.
Citrus shunkokan is a very good citrus.

JSea:

--- Quote ---Citrus shunkokan is a very good citrus.
--- End quote ---

Have you tasted it to say that hehe?

Radoslav:
Yes, I grow SRA 771 and another plant of unknown origin, plants look identical, but fruits from unknown plant are usually seedless and taste is better than SRA 771. Taste is bland, when fruits hang too long on tree.

JSea:
Is the flavour more towards lemon or orange, or something else? What would be the most similar Citrus taste-wise that you know?

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