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Argentine Trifoliate

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Argentine Trifoliate

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Argentine Trifoliate

Overview Discussion

Characteristics

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Hardiness Health & resistance Grafting

Breeding & lineage

Breeding Pedigree Hybrids

History & sources

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Argentine Trifoliate

[1]
Argentina trifoliate | Givaudan Citrus Variety Collection at UCR (opens in a new tab)
University of California, Riverside, Givaudan Citrus Variety Collection
https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc3206 (opens in a new tab)
UCR identifies CRC 3206 / PI 539757 as Poncirus trifoliata (L.) Raf.; its accession page records budwood received from Joe Furr, USDCS, Indio, CA, from Yuma, Arizona, in 1958, and lists the parents as unknown.
Accessed September 19th
[2]
USDA Plant Inventory: PI 539142 to PI 539855—continued (opens in a new tab)
USDA Agricultural Research Service
https://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/pi_books/scans/pi199pt1.pdf (opens in a new tab)
The PI 539757 entry lists Poncirus trifoliata (L.) Raf., cultivar Argentina, local name Argentine trifoliate, donor ID CRC 3206, and identifies the material as a tree/cutting.
Accessed September 19th