The Tropical Fruit Forum

I came back home late and the light isn't good.

The tree:


Growing strait toward the sky:




Velvet fruit:


Regular fruit:


The first years the flowers were very small and irregular, with the time the flowers stabilize with three petals:


The seedlings:




Does someone dare to say it is not a chimera?

It has grown pretty well but it seems it wants to grow in all directions but upwards.

After few years the shoots go strait to the sky.

Sylvain in Dordogne have very nice plant, almost 2 meters high , producing sweet fruits of very good quality.

The tallest is now 2.50m. The second one is about 2m high and last year I made a third that is a little less than 2m. The last one is an over-graft on a '5 stars' grafted on PT. It is very vigorous.

Leaves are  a mixture of bi- tri- or monofoliates.

Like shown on the Ilya11's picture bifoliate and trifoliates are very rare. Most are deformed monofoliates.

The fruits are almost satsuma like

Not 'almost', they are pure satsuma fruits.

There is suspicion that it is a chimera between poncirus and satsuma

For me there is no doubt, it is a chimera.
This spring one very big flower appeared just at the same time than the poncirus flowers. Looking exactly the same. The Prague chimeras bloom nearly one month later with small flowers. The fruitlet issued from this flower is already big and have a velvet skin.
Now we know that the poncirus that made the chimera is of the large flowers kind.
Last year I had one seed from the fruits (the first one). It gave three seedlings that are pure mandarins.

It could be this variety in UCR collection

I don't think so. The fruits are very different. This one looks more like an orange than like a mandarin.

Well, the wall is not "Mexican"... 

It's done: http://citrus.forumup.org/about1762-citrus.html

It is a glue trap for insects. The black spots are insects, not holes.

I know but there are few exceptions, like Citrus polyandra (ex Clymenia polyandra),  Citrus longilimon and Citrus inodora (ex Microcitrus inodora).
And now Citrus odichukuthi if it appears to be different than Citrus longilimon.