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World of CitrusWorld of CitrusIkiriki Satsuma
Masao Iwamasa · HortScience · 1988-08
https://doi.org/10.21273/HORTSCI.23.4.687 (opens in a new tab)
Figure 2, “Mutations in satsumas,” visually shows the sequence Zairai → Ikiriki → Owari. Its legend marks double lines as selections through nucellar seedlings. The diagram supports a source-reported selection relationship, not a sexual cross; it does not identify a modern accession or establish the mechanism for the Ikiriki selection.
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Pittwater Online News · November 3–9, 2013 (Issue 135)
https://www.pittwateronlinenews.com/mandarins-spring-fruits---food.php (opens in a new tab)
This page reproduces historical Satsuma-group text attributed to Robert Willard Hodgson, The Citrus Industry, vol. I, ch. 4. It reports Ikiriki as an old local group with compact trees, low productivity and seedless, excellent-quality fruit; the same passage says Owari is “thought” to have come from Ikiriki. These are historical, group-level claims, not an accession-specific description or verified ancestry. The page's appended Honshu wording conflicts with its Saga/Nagasaki locations and is not treated as verified.
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Masao Nishiura · Proceedings of the Florida State Horticultural Society, vol. 77, pp. 79–83 · 1964
https://journals.flvc.org/fshs/article/viewFile/100595/96550 (opens in a new tab)
On pp. 79–80, Nishiura attributes a list of local Satsuma varieties to Tanaka’s 1918 studies; the printed list spells one entry “Ikirika,” while the following prose refers to Ikiriki. It describes Ikiriki fruit as very large and excellent in quality and the tree as rather dwarf; it also says old Ikiriki trees were no longer propagated or recommended for commercial planting. These are historical cultivar-level claims, not a measured accession or parentage finding.
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