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UCR records that this Wekiwa accession was received as budwood from the Date Gardens in Indio, California, in 1930.
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UCR records that this Wekiwa accession was received as budwood from the Date Gardens in Indio, California, in 1930.
Sources: [1]
The 1931 Circular reports that, in a series of backcrosses, a pink-fleshed tangelo resulted from using Sampson tangelo pollen on a seedling grapefruit. The account does not give a cross year.
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The 1931 Circular says the pink tangelo was named Wekiwa after a famous spring in Orange County, Florida. It does not give a naming year.
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