Raspberry Tangor: History | World of Citrus

Around 1989
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The Panzarella Citrus article’s first-person narrator says Chapman gave them the grafted seedling around July 1989 and asked them to grow it to see what fruit it would produce. The narrator says it fruited several years later. The article displays no byline and does not name the recipient in this passage.
- Bill ChapmanOther
  Provided the original grafted seedling to John Panzarella for evaluation around July 1989.
- John PanzarellaDeveloper
  Grew and evaluated the original grafted Raspberry Tangor seedling through its first fruiting.
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Cross Made
Panzarella Citrus reports that Bill Chapman of League City, Texas, pollinated a monoembryonic Umatilla Tangor flower with Moro Blood Orange pollen. Chapman grew fruit from the cross, collected its seed, and grafted a seedling bud. The article does not state when or where the pollination took place; it says the resulting grafted seedling was later transferred around July 1989.
- Bill ChapmanBreeder
  Made the Umatilla tangor × Moro blood orange hybridization from which Raspberry Tangor originated.
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Named
The Panzarella Citrus article says that after the grafted seedling fruited, Lewis Walden tasted the fruit and named it Raspberry Tangor for its red interior and slight raspberry-like flavor. The first-person narrator says buds were later taken from their original tree and the variety tested in several locations. The article gives no date, event location, or byline.
- Lewis WaldenNamer
  Named the selection Raspberry Tangor after tasting its red-fleshed, raspberry-flavored fruit.
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