Proposed that Carolina Lime may be derived from Dr. John Brown’s CiClem material, possibly through a backcross with Clementine, based on its green flesh, seed characteristics, foliage, fruit quality, and apparent trifoliate ancestry.
Accounts describe an unidentified citrus selection at McKenzie Farms in Scranton, South Carolina that reached Stan McKenzie as budwood from Germany. In a later forum post, mikkel reports that German grower Bernhard Voss said he did not know the original seed source. Tom McClendon has suggested a Clementine, trifoliate, Clementine F2 lineage, but identifies it as a guess. These are attributed accounts; the original parentage remains undocumented.
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