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		| Radoslav Moderator
 
  
  
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				| Posted: Mon 09 Apr, 2012 12:36 pm |  
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				| Last year, I got some seeds from unknown fruit. Description of the fruit fits to citrus kotokan . Mandarin-like fruit, with size of pomelo. Seeds are bigger than pomelo seeds. Now I have  healthy seedlings from those seeds.
 
Something interesting occures on those seedlings. On each plant there is one (on one plant - two), bifoliate leaves. On some seedlings, there are "double neck" on some  leaves.
   
bifoliate leaf:
   
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		| Radoslav Moderator
 
  
  
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				| Posted: Mon 09 Apr, 2012 12:42 pm |  
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		| Laaz Site Owner
 
  
  
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				| Posted: Mon 09 Apr, 2012 12:51 pm |  
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				| Great photos, I would bet that is some type of cross with trifoliata.  _________________
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		| MarcV Moderator
 
  
  
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				| Posted: Mon 09 Apr, 2012 12:53 pm |  
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				| A very interesting specimen!  _________________
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		| Radoslav Moderator
 
  
  
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				| Posted: Mon 09 Apr, 2012 4:32 pm |  
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				| I bet for cross pollination with trifoliate too. Or may be with swinglea ? But I am not sure, that swinglea can pollinate citrus species. Never saw the mother plant, so I do not know, whether mother plant is hybrid, or the fruit comes from cross pollination.
Hope, one day will see fruits from these seedlings.
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				| Posted: Mon 09 Apr, 2012 5:14 pm |  
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				| Also pumelo does not come true from seed.  _________________
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		| Radoslav Moderator
 
  
  
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				| Posted: Sat 15 Sep, 2012 1:43 pm |  
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				| Another interesting cross:
 
3 years ago I bought "Jaffa red pomelo" fruit (some said to be identical with Chandler pomelo) and sow 3 seeds from this fruit . I got 3 nice seedlings with different habitus. On the second one, I found big trifoliate leaf this year ! Hope, one day I will have the chance to test the fruits       
Trifoliate leaf:
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		| Sanguinello Gest
 
 
 
 
 
 
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				| Posted: Sat 15 Sep, 2012 7:31 pm |  
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				| Guess you have some Poncirus or hybrid near you and the bees do the rest ...  |  | 
	
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				| Posted: Sun 16 Sep, 2012 3:40 am |  
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				| Of course it has poncirus in ancestry, but not born in  my garden. Seeds are from fruit, which I bought in supermarket - import Israel.  |  | 
	
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		| Sanguinello Gest
 
 
 
 
 
 
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				| Posted: Sun 16 Sep, 2012 3:45 am |  
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				| aha, misunderstood ...
 nevertheless, it is interesting how hardly that will be ...
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