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World of CitrusWorld of CitrusTrovita Orange
University of California, Riverside — Citrus Variety Collection
https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc3182 (opens in a new tab)
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TD Homestead · 2024-12-16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5gmxrgGaro (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: In a North Carolina container-grown citrus comparison, the grower identifies a Trovita orange among his seven-gallon container trees (6:12–6:38), then describes it as a traditional sweet orange (9:13–9:30). The grower says it is supposedly a Washington Navel seedling; this uncertain report does not revise recorded lineage. He tastes the orange separately, but “great” / “just as good as the ones we've been eating” is unscored relative wording and is not saved as a taste rating. Raw native transcript capture: docs/research/rio-red-grapefruit-2026-09-29/videos/a5gmxrgGaro.txt.
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TD Homestead · 2025-11-18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIpxI5OL1J4 (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: In North Carolina, the grower reports a three-year-old rooted Trovita orange cutting, about one foot tall, with one orange that he says is as large as the Rio Red grapefruit and larger than oranges on the parent plant (1:39–3:08). He tastes that orange separately; the comparison “just as good as the ones we’ve been eating” is relative and is not an intensity rating. Raw English auto-caption capture: docs/research/rio-red-grapefruit-2026-09-29/videos/GIpxI5OL1J4.txt.
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Citrus ID · 2011-10
https://idtools.org/citrus_id/index.cfm?entityID=8878&packageID=1179 (opens in a new tab)
Citrus ID Edition 2 identification key. Describes Trovita fruit morphology, including shape, color, texture, firmness, navel and flesh. Its historical and general cultivar notes quote Hodgson (1967), so those statements are not independent historical evidence.
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Will B · UBC Botanical Garden Forums · 2020-11-27
https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/trovita-orange.99488/ (opens in a new tab)
Firsthand grower report from North Saanich, British Columbia. Will B describes a roughly 4-foot tree with about a bucket and a half of fruit, calling the oranges sweet and juicy and comparing the fruit with Washington navel. These are informal observations of his tree, not a measured cultivar trial.
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DocHollywood · Houzz
https://www.houzz.com/discussions/4612644/trovita-orange-questions (opens in a new tab)
Forum reply by DocHollywood, identified as 9b Central Tucson, describes an in-ground Trovita planted about four to five years earlier as producing lots of fruit. The poster calls the fruit “very very sweet” and says they blend its juice with Rio Red grapefruit juice to reduce the sweetness. Informal report; exact planting date, crop count and measurement method are not given.
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Nature Hills Nursery · 2018-02-07
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG0Y8VTWY0A (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: The presenter says their Trovita picking season can run from late February to Thanksgiving (0:08–0:12), calls the flavor “one of the best tasting oranges” (0:25–0:33), and recommends the tree for marginal-zone indoor/outdoor growing (0:47–1:06). The speaker’s location and any temperature or survival observation are not established; flavor praise is unscored.
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New England Gardening · 2013-03-10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyuNTFT2gCA (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: The grower shows three greenhouse-grown Trovita oranges; one is described as about baseball-sized (0:23–0:37). The fruit retains a green tinge (0:44–1:20), and the presenter notes some seeds and a fairly thick rind (2:12–2:15). The oranges are juiced together; the grower says the juice did not “hit the orange juice lottery” but was still pretty good (4:19–4:52). No measured size, weight, or taste intensity is reported.
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Geaux Grow · 2022-12-28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN54f4oc8UE (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: The presenter tastes one greenhouse-grown Trovita orange picked two or three days earlier (0:53–1:08). She notices a seed, then describes the fruit as having “hardly any seeds,” being “very very juicy” (2:15), and “very sweet” (2:24). The native transcript panel text covers 0:00–2:30 of the 2:39 video and does not identify caption language or whether captions were authored or automatic. No instrument reading or scorecard is reported.
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Howard B. Frost · University of California Agricultural Experiment Station · 1935-12
At printed pp. 13–14, Frost reports three Trovita seedlings from seeds found in one fruit in the Station's 1914–15 Washington Navel crop; the parent tree was not located. He presents nucellar origin or bud variation as a belief, not a confirmed parentage. The bulletin distinguishes two strains from the original seedlings: the more-pollen, more-seeded strain was distributed, while the less-seeded strain varied and showed reversion toward the navel type, and remained in trial. This account does not establish the accession identity of later material.
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