I drove down to the misses to fetch the Coit
book among other things yesterday as I want
to look at Coit's account later about the Bahia.
Yes, I had read that the Bahia was touted to
have come about from a limb sport from the
"Selecta" as well (Hodgson book, page 484).

The feeling I have is that the original tree
in Portugal may have come from Spain like
many but of course not all of their Oranges
did. This is part of what makes me wonder
if the Bahia or the Selecta itself was already
here (San Joaquin Valley) when the proposed
"Bahia" came into William Saunders' possession.

As you mentioned there is a similarity of
what was thought as being the old Bahia to
what I currently grow from physical aspects
of the fruit. Yet, there are minor yet some
distinct differences in the Tibbet tree from
ours in the physical characteristics of the
fruit, basic shape of the tree and from my
view in the stableness of the tree as well.
This leads me to question if the Bahia and
the Tibbett plant from Saunders [no real
account of what happened to the Kimball
in Hayward trees from Saunders] were the
same clone. I think there might have been
two or more different clonal selections all
called Bahia (we've seen this before in other
plants that more than one cultivar originating
from a particular region could and in some
cases were called by the same name) in that
one may have in fact been the old Selecta and
another was the Bahia and there is the possibility
of a third form with the Baianinha Piracicaba,
all coming in at various times as being called
Bahia. This would partially explain the three
parental types we once had, still may have
around if we search hard enough to find
them, in the upper North.

Jim