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World of CitrusWorld of CitrusOwari Satsuma
University of California, Riverside — Citrus Variety Collection
https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc3178 (opens in a new tab)
Retrieved 2026-09-21. CRC 3178 identifies Frost Owari and embeds general Owari notes plus a quoted 1967 Owari account. Dependent records distinguish accession-specific Frost statements from general Owari text.
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The Millennial Gardener · YouTube · 2019-12-15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdpWhkH4K7o (opens in a new tab)
Young, protected, trifoliate-grafted Owari and a first-season fruit tasting in coastal southeastern North Carolina. Summary from transcript: preserve the single-sample tasting and protection context; generic Satsuma claims and general cold claims are excluded.
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The Millennial Gardener · YouTube · 2021-01-03
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOH9RcsIplA (opens in a new tab)
Second-year harvest and tasted Owari fruit from the same grower/tree series, but a distinct harvest sample. Summary from transcript: fruit description and yield remain source-specific; fruit-protection thresholds are not tree-survival limits.
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Nature Hills Nursery · YouTube · 2017-12-21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEp3T8VGEiU (opens in a new tab)
Nursery presentation naming Owari with easy-peel, ripening, and promotional cold-tolerance claims. Summary from transcript: retain only source-scoped claims and do not treat promotional hardiness guidance as a trial.
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Steven Murray's Rare Fruit! · YouTube · 2021-01-04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q3aHhyfU0M (opens in a new tab)
Short named Owari tasting. Summary from transcript: preserve subjective sweet-and-sour description as an uninstrumented sample, with no inferred metrics.
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cowboyV2 · YouTube · 2021-06-02
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrneR16LoI0 (opens in a new tab)
Protected marginal-site Owari survival account in a western U.S. Zone 8b ranch setting. Summary from transcript: site microclimate and protection are material; it is not a cultivar-wide temperature limit.
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Weird Explorer · YouTube · 2021-03-17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa3G2tDyMh4 (opens in a new tab)
California-grown Owari tasting donated through a California Rare Fruit Growers chapter and filmed in New York City. Summary from transcript: subjective fruit traits have no harvest date, rootstock, or analytical measurements.
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The Mulberries
https://themulberries.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Satsuma.png (opens in a new tab)
Publisher scorecard directly inspected. It identifies Owari Satsuma Mandarin and records one undated specimen; method, harvest date, and video association are not verified.
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May CA · YouTube · 2020-11-25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhvse0I10xQ (opens in a new tab)
Container-grown first-fruit Owari tasting in California. Summary from transcript: retain source-specific sweet/juicy fruit description and comparative sweetness only; no metric or general hardiness inference.
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The Millennial Gardener · YouTube · 2025-01-13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzwh3I3axQ4 (opens in a new tab)
North Carolina Owari account with rootstock and protection context. Summary from transcript: productivity and ripening are site-specific; no recorded general cold threshold.
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Ed Able Solutions · YouTube · 2025-12-05
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ46TmWv62E (opens in a new tab)
Four Winds Nursery Owari presentation. Summary from transcript: keep displayed-sample traits source-specific and exclude untested temperature speculation.
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The Millennial Gardener · YouTube · 2023-12-18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpF9lWJKCuA (opens in a new tab)
Protected, grafted North Carolina Owari context. Summary from transcript: retain source-specific yield and protection claims; no cultivar-wide cold limit.
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2 Angels Farm - Figs & Fruits · YouTube · 2023-11-16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZhcvbvicJE (opens in a new tab)
Named home-grown Owari tasting in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Summary from transcript: distinguish the ripe named sample from an under-ripe, unidentified commercial comparator.
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Fruit Trees and More · YouTube · 2025-07-11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWMoqEiAB2A (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: at the Fruit Trees and More site near Victoria, B.C., Bob Duncan calls Owari the standard satsuma and states at 3:55 that its tree is hardy to about -9 C while fruit freezes at about -3 C. This is a site/grower statement with no specimen age, rootstock, protection detail, or instrument reading; retain the source wording and do not use either number as a hardiness-trial minimum.
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Drew Demler (wildscaper) · Growing Fruit · 2016-12-06
https://growingfruit.org/t/miho-satsuma/8040/5 (opens in a new tab)
Retrieved public forum post. The grower reports having grown standard Owari for years, liking it, and preferring Miho. It does not identify the Owari tree’s location, rootstock, age, protection, harvest date, or fruit traits.
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Tom McClendon (Citrus Palms With Tom) · YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLynIzGDO1w (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: English auto-generated captions, 0:01–17:28. At 4:39–5:22 McClendon describes his Owari Satsuma as a graft he carried from St. Marys, Georgia when moving north about ten years earlier. He calls the current small tree a good producer and reports a good number of fruit in each of the previous two seasons. Rootstock, crop counts, and any freeze temperature or damage outcome are not stated. The page showed “4 months ago” when accessed 2026-09-27; exact publication date is unverified.
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Nat Backyard Garden · YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdgV5J-kTSc (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: At 3:24–3:34 the presenter identifies the tree as Owari satsuma, not Shiranui. In Amarillo, Texas (Zone 7), his potted tree lost almost 80% of its leaves after an “Arctic frost,” then produced substantial new foliage by spring (0:32–0:58); he says it is in a 17-gallon container (7:42–8:15). He tastes fruit from its first described crop (10:47–12:11), calls it very sweet and tart, and rates sweetness 7/10 and tartness around 6/10 on his personal scale (12:00–12:11). Actual minimum temperature, rootstock, exposure details, and exact upload date are unstated; the presenter’s 15°F hardiness statement is not a measured survival threshold. Page showed “4 years ago”; English auto-captions cover 0:00–15:57 of the 15:58 video.
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Sue Kendall · USDA Agricultural Research Service
https://www.ars.usda.gov/oc/dof/ars-citrus-rootstocks-a-success-story/ (opens in a new tab)
USDA-ARS feature. Its D4632-1 caption identifies a six-year-old Owari Satsuma mandarin scion on US-942 and reports that US-942 was highest yielding in that trial at over 300 lb fruit/tree. The page gives no publication date; the trial site, year, comparator set, and design are unstated.
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Jake Price; Mary Sutton; Joshua L. Dawson; Jacob Kalina · University of Georgia Cooperative Extension, Circular 1352 · 2025-08-29
UGA Circular 1352 compares 12 early-maturing satsumas with Owari across southern Georgia. Each cultivar was sampled at 1–5 sites; five fruit per variety and site were juiced at late September and mid-October in 2022 and 2023, with the same sites both years. Values are multi-year means. Rootstocks included Poncirus trifoliata, ‘Rubidoux,’ and trifoliate hybrids, but cultivar-specific assignments are not stated. TSS/Brix and titratable acidity are chemical measurements, not pH or sensory scores. The publication does not identify a matching CRC accession.
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Tracy L. Kahn · University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, Topics in Subtropics, vol. 5, no. 1 · January–March 2007
https://ucanr.edu/sites/default/files/2014-01/179457.pdf (opens in a new tab)
The CCPP availability table on printed p. 4 lists this cultivar in its “Seedless Varieties” column. The table defines “seedless” as allowing only an occasional seed, regardless of planting location. This is a collection availability classification, not a counted sample, accession-specific trial, or observation of the catalog's plant.
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Luna Maslov Bandić et al. · Horticulturae · 2023-03-14
https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/9/3/383 (opens in a new tab)
Table 1 reports Owari fruit from the Neretva Valley study lot: mean mass 124.49 ± 34.69 g, firmness 2.02 ± 0.34 kg cm−2, TSS 11.76 ± 0.76%, TA 1.04 ± 0.23%, TSS/TA 11.47 ± 1.38, and pH 3.58 ± 0.18. Five C. unshiu cultivars were harvested at optimal maturity; Owari was harvested 2021-11-18. The study does not identify a CRC accession or clone. These are physicochemical results, not sensory scores. The table labels TA as %, while the methods describe TA in g/L citric acid.
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Masao Iwamasa · HortScience · 1988-08
https://doi.org/10.21273/HORTSCI.23.4.687 (opens in a new tab)
Figure 2, “Mutations in satsumas,” depicts Owari as an ancestor of named selections, including a single-line path to Nagahashi. It also shows Ikiriki preceding Owari. The figure’s double-line legend specifies selections through nucellar seedlings; it does not identify modern accessions.
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