Well, I found another citrus growing in Wilmington, NC. It’s a Trifoliate cross that looks and tastes like a like a lemon. If you scratch the skin you get a whiff of the trifoliate smell. The juice has a slight trifoliate smell but when diluted into lemonade the trifoliate isn’t noticeable.
The owners said that they asked someone going to FL to bring them back some orange trees and this is what they got. My guess is that the scion died the first winter and these 2 trifoliate rootstocks grew on.
Most of the trifoliate crosses I’ve only read about. So, Can anyone identify this citrus?
Terry


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Your name should really be the "Citrus Tree Hunter" Terry. I'm amazed at your citrus tree hunting skills and discoveries! It looks a lot like my Dunstan but could even be Swingle. I bet Keith would be able to shed some light.

It looks identical to my Swingle

Citrus US 119 .

I think the fruits are too big for any Citrange, so I agree its probably a Citrumelo.
So, are there two separate trees there? - it's a little difficult to tell - one looks taller and the fruit have more green on the underside.

I have just received a photo of the first outdoor fruiting citrange/citrumelo I have ever heard of in the UK!
This is growing at the back of a house in Nottingham, England.
The owner thought it was a Citrange and has been growing it for 22years. But I contacted the retired nurseryman who supplied it and he
believes it may be originally from a Dunstan Citrumelo cutting he received from the US. Again, this seems likely to me,
as the fruits are big for a Citrange. Either way it is a great rarity here - I have been searching
for such a plant ever since I became interested in citrus over thirty years ago. I will be getting budwood in the spring.

Mike/Citrange

Wow Mike, that's an awesome find. Thirty years to find such a tree?! Nottingham is much further north than me so it gives me inspiration to plant outside. Are the fruits produced of a good edible quality?

Wow. Nice find Mike. That's a beautuful tree.
I'll try and get a better pic of the 2 lemon trees. They look identical but the one on the right doesn't produce much fruit. So I took cuttings from the one on the left.
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Terry, I think Mike meant that the first tree could be made of the grafted part and the rootstock. There are differences in the fruits and I could add that some parts look darker than others.
Look at the trunk if you could find some trace of the graft.

Thanks Sylvain.
I didn't think about some of the original scion still being there. The tree has different shades of green on it. But, they are all Tri-leafed from what I observed.
I'll go back and take a closer look.
Terry

Terry my tree has multiple trunks and only two of them has fruit this year. the tree is usually full of fruit. It was bought as a RR GF 25 years ago but died due to cold.