World of CitrusCocktail Grapefruit
UCR’s CRC 3555 account identifies Cocktail as a Siamese Sweet pummelo × Frua mandarin hybrid and places the cross at Riverside, possibly in the 1950s. This account does not state an exact year or name the breeders.
Conducted the citrus breeding program in which Cocktail was created during the 1950s.
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UCR’s CRC 3555 Source field identifies the source of budwood as the original tree, described as “bred at UCR in 1966.” The field does not document a separate budwood-receipt date or relate this source tree to the separately reported possible-1950s cross.
UCR CRC 3555 Source field identifies the original tree as the source of budwood. It describes that source tree as bred at UCR in 1966; it does not separately date receipt or accession.
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A UCR note marked EMN, 1986 says the hybrid escaped into industry and was probably named “Cocktail grapefruit” by a citrus nurseryman. The note does not identify the nurseryman or substantiate a separate naming of the selection as “Mandalo” by Soost or Cameron.
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A UCR note marked EMN, 1986 says the hybrid escaped into industry and had never been officially named and released. The note does not date its circulation or document test plantings with California growers.
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