Savage Citrange

The 1907 U.S. Department of Agriculture circular describes hybrid No. 779 as a trifoliate-orange and sweet-orange cross and says it was named Savage for Frank Savage of Eustis, Florida. It is a reprint of Webber’s 1906 Yearbook account; the account does not establish an exact cross date.^⁠[1]

UCR’s profile documents a particular Savage accession as CRC 275 / PI 539813 / VI 249. It records budwood provenance from Dr. Fawcett’s #135 Florida collection in 1914, lists Poncirus trifoliata × Citrus sinensis as parentage and Carrizo and C-35 as rootstocks of the accession, and gives an October–November ripeness season at Riverside.^⁠[2]

Webber’s historical description calls the fruit spherical or slightly compressed, with light orange-yellow rind, light-yellow flesh, 8–10 segments, tender and juicy texture, usually 3–4 seeds, and a pleasant light aroma suggesting apple. It gives a broad September 15 through November maturity period; the fruit-size line is not used because the OCR is unclear.^⁠[1]

Historical publications also describe Savage as a rootstock. Trials report grapefruit and Satsuma scion size/yield observations at Riverside, Redblush grapefruit scion fruit-quality sampling in Texas, and Orlando tangelo scion yield, size, and chemistry responses in Arizona. A separate Riverside exocortis report says a particular set of Savage trees showed no symptoms. These are source-specific graft combinations and a local disease observation, not general ratings of Savage fruit or disease resistance.^{⁠[3]⁠[4]⁠[5]⁠[6]}