Etrog Citron

UCR identifies the accession as CRC 3891 / PI 508265 / VI 426, sourced from Israel through Glen Dale, Maryland, and the California Clonal Protection Program in 1983. It lists parentage as unknown and says the exact cultivar identity is uncertain; specialists suggest Ordang. UCR also explains that Etrog can refer broadly to citron or to different types considered suitable by some communities.^⁠[1]

UCR describes CRC 3891 trees as small, shrubby and open, with purple new growth and flowers, and says they are frost-sensitive. Its oblong, candle-flame-shaped fruit has thick, bumpy, fragrant yellow rind, pale-yellow pulp with little juice, numerous seeds, and usually no persistent style. UCR lists Yuma Ponderosa lemon in the accession’s rootstock field. Riverside culinary ripening season is November–January.^⁠[1]