Taiwanica Lemon: History | World of Citrus

1926Hongmaoguan, Nanzhuang Township, Miaoli County, Taiwan
Discovered
The Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency reports that Citrus taiwanica was first discovered in 1926 by a Japanese botanist at Hongmaoguan, Nanzhuang Township, Miaoli, Taiwan. This is the institution’s species-level historical account; it does not establish the origin or breeding history of this selected accession.
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1935United States
Other
UCR records Taiwanica accession CRC 2588 (PI 539680) as received as budwood and grown as a cutting via W.T. Swingle, USDA, Washington, DC, in 1935. This is the accession’s receipt and maintenance history, not the cultivar’s origin or discovery.
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Discovered