CiTemple 'Edible'

CiTemple ‘Edible’ is a named seedling from Dr. John R. Brown’s Temple Tangor × Poncirus trifoliata cross made at Dr. William Bragg’s home in Houston in 1960. It is distinct from the earlier edible-fruited CiTemple hedge tree planted in Franklin in 1955; Brown later crossed that earlier tree with ‘Edible’. The named selection is not described as a bud sport or a clone of the earlier tree.^⁠[1]

Dr. John R. Brown reports poor or no spring pollen from the tree known as ‘Edible,’ but pollen on summer ‘June blooms,’ and says it was killed to the ground in December 1983 after appearing fully hardy. A 2007 forum quotation of an uninspected book says it reportedly had almost no trifoliate off-flavor; the same quotation appears in a Houzz discussion and is not independent confirmation. A 2014 report reprinted on Forum Agrumes lists a plant labeled CiTemple Edible among winter losses, without plant-specific exposure data or a verified accession link to Brown’s tree.^{⁠[1]⁠[2]⁠[3]⁠[4]}