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World of CitrusWorld of CitrusKona Sweet Orange
W. P. Bitters · University of California, Riverside · ca. 1986
Bitters's sweet-orange section identifies Kona as introduced from Hawaii's Kona district about 1950 and comments on its performance as a California rootstock. Printed p. 106 (PDF p. 112).
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USDA APHIS PPQ Citrus ID (Edition 2) · October 2011
https://idtools.org/citrus_id/index.cfm?packageID=1179&entityID=8624 (opens in a new tab)
Citrus ID fact sheet lists Hawaii and Waialua as synonyms (attributed there to Cottin 2002) and places Kona in the Sweet Orange Group under the cited taxonomic treatments. The page does not document a Valencia selection lineage or an accession-level identity.
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Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity
https://www.fondazioneslowfood.com/en/ark-of-taste-slow-food/kona-orange/ (opens in a new tab)
The Ark entry calls Kona Citrus sinensis cv. Valencia, compares it with other Valencia types, and separately describes Kona's Hawaiian history and preservation. This secondary catalog entry does not provide accession-level evidence that Kona is identical to a particular Valencia cultivar or is a Valencia selection.
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Big Island Video News · Big Island Video News · June 5, 2024
This article reproduces a Hawaii Tropical Fruit Growers news release announcing Kona's Ark of Taste listing and repeats history and preservation claims. It is retained as a secondary account of the listing, not independent evidence of Valencia identity or clonal lineage.
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Peter T. Young · Images of Old Hawaiʻi / Hoʻokuleana LLC · October 23, 2022
https://imagesofoldhawaii.com/kona-oranges/ (opens in a new tab)
Young's compilation quotes Vancouver's 1792 journal and later historical/oral-history sources; it says the plants left in Kona were supposed to be parents of the russet Kona oranges. That wording is tentative and does not identify a modern donor accession or establish a Valencia lineage.
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Glenn I. Teves · The Molokai Dispatch · August 1, 2012
https://themolokaidispatch.com/sweet-oranges/ (opens in a new tab)
Teves's extension article says oranges introduced to Hawaiʻi by Vancouver in 1792 are known as Hawaiian or Kona orange and notes variability from seed propagation. This is an attributed historical account and does not identify a particular clone or Valencia selection.
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East Hawaii Outdoor Circle · October 14, 2020
The Valencia page quotes Plant It Hawaii (2020), which says Valencia oranges are also called Kona oranges and refers to their first planting by seed in Kona in the late 1700s. This is broad gardening usage, not accession-level evidence of clonal identity.
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Oʻahu Fresh
https://www.oahufresh.com/ingredient/oranges/ (opens in a new tab)
This local food directory calls Kona a type of Valencia orange and places its introduction to the Big Island in the late 1700s. It provides no cultivar-accession or clonal-lineage evidence.
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