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World of CitrusWorld of CitrusSilverhill Satsuma
University of California, Riverside — Citrus Variety Collection
https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc4072 (opens in a new tab)
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Amanda Saville, Alexander Krings, Tracy Kahn, Matthew D. Trice, and Amanda J. Redford · USDA-APHIS Identification Technology Program (Citrus ID) · October 2011
https://idtools.org/citrus_id/index.cfm?packageID=1179&entityID=8820 (opens in a new tab)
Citrus ID Edition 2 Silverhill entry. Its morphology and cultivar notes include a Hodgson (1967)-attributed account calling Silverhill a nucellar seedling selection of Owari from Swingle’s Florida cross around 1908 and saying it was named and introduced about 1931. The California Frost Owari comparison is explicitly qualified as almost certainly identical, not genetic proof. The entry's short taste label differs from the quoted Hodgson flavor description; preserve attribution.
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Peter C. Andersen, James J. Ferguson, and Muhammad Adnan Shahid · UF/IFAS Extension · Last revised September 2023 (original publication March 1996)
https://ask.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/CH116 (opens in a new tab)
The named Silverhill cultivar entry states October–November maturity, 0–6 seeds (rarely present), medium fruit more oblate than most cultivars, abundant juice, high sugars and low acid with a very sweet flavor, relatively thin smooth rind, and vigorous, productive, more upright trees. The cultivar entry supplies no Silverhill-specific trial site, accession, sample size, rootstock, or measurement protocol. General Satsuma cold-tolerance statements and the separate Owari/Brown Select rootstock trial do not describe Silverhill.
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Tough Citrus · January 27, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRz__9Avz1Q (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: At 8:17 the speaker identifies a fruit as Silver Hill Satsuma and says it “just peel right off.” English auto-generated captions cover 0:00–37:53 of this 37:58 nursery tour. This is a single nursery fruit observation; accession, tree location, harvest date, method, and sample count are not reported. A following caption at 8:32 says “soft,” but the referent is ambiguous and is not attributed to Silverhill. The captions provide no Silverhill taste assessment, scorecard, or numeric measurement.
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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 places Silverhill Satsuma under “Seedless Varieties,” which the table defines as allowing only an occasional seed regardless of planting location. This is a program classification, not a counted sample or accession-specific observation.
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