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World of CitrusWorld of CitrusXie Shan Satsuma
Givaudan Citrus Variety Collection at UCR
https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc4081 (opens in a new tab)
Directly retrieved accession page for CRC 4081 / PI 654869 / VI 621. It records budwood provenance, parents unknown, accession rootstocks and Riverside season; its dated CVC fruit-quality table contains 59 source rows. Its 3/1/2010 note reports early-ripening and seedlessness claims, while table rows show variable seeds; preserve that conflict and do not treat the note date as a publication date.
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TD Homestead · YouTube · 2026-02-10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxit7ituv8U (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: An English auto-generated caption capture (0:01–4:25 of 4:30) documents the presenter’s first tasted fruit from a two-gallon potted Xie Shan in a greenhouse on speaker-dated 2026-02-10. It records easy peeling, a seedless cut fruit, golden color, and “Not super strong flavor, but still very good”; no fruit metrics, rootstock, location, or hardiness result is supplied. The late-bloom February harvest is a single protected-tree observation, not cultivar-wide maturity evidence.
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Eastside Gardening · YouTube · 2021-12-13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxLZsKWrC7g (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: English auto-generated captions (0:00–1:54 of 1:59) accompany a page titled Xie Shan Satsuma citrus. The speaker describes a container-tree fruit as tasty, very easy to peel with loose skin, and having a nice balance of acid and sweetness; no explicit sweetness, sourness, or bitterness intensity category, metric, rootstock, location, or observation date is supplied. A two-to-three-week ripeness statement is a tree-specific prediction, not a maturity date.
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jibro (attributed in user-provided excerpt) · Citrus Growers Forum (ProBoards)
Summary from user-provided translated excerpt: The supplied attachment attributes a Feb. 3, 2024 post to jibro and says it reproduces an AI DeepL translation of a Tiny Mandragore nursery listing. The excerpt says the nursery's Xie Shan plant withstood −12°C without too much damage, with fruiting only slightly reduced the following year; it says protection from cold winds is essential. These are translated, second-hand nursery claims about its plant, not an independently verified trial or a measurement by the forum poster. The full thread and original nursery text were not independently retrieved. The excerpt supplies no exact site, event date, exposure duration, temperature instrument, tree age, rootstock, or quantified recovery method; preserve the stated cold-wind qualification.
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Jake Price; Mary Sutton; Joshua L. Dawson; Jacob Kalina · University of Georgia Cooperative Extension, Circular 1352 · 2025-08-29
UGA Circular 1352 compares 12 early-maturing satsumas with Owari across southern Georgia. Each cultivar was sampled at 1–5 sites; five fruit per variety and site were juiced at late September and mid-October in 2022 and 2023, with the same sites both years. Values are multi-year means. Rootstocks included Poncirus trifoliata, ‘Rubidoux,’ and trifoliate hybrids, but cultivar-specific assignments are not stated. TSS/Brix and titratable acidity are chemical measurements, not pH or sensory scores. The publication does not identify a matching CRC accession.
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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 lists this cultivar in its “Seedless Varieties” column. The table defines “seedless” as allowing only an occasional seed, regardless of planting location. This is a collection availability classification, not a counted sample, accession-specific trial, or observation of the catalog's plant.
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snickles · Citrus Growers Forum · 2008-05-10
http://citrusgrowersstatic.chez.com/web/viewtopic6efc.php (opens in a new tab)
In the May 10, 2008 post, snickles gives a firsthand opinion of an Xie Shan sample as “too bland for my taste” and records it as “sweet but may be insipid.” The poster also says the plant had unspecified nutrient issues and suggests these may have contributed to the flavor; no causal test is reported. No sample accession, tasting date, site, rootstock, or method is stated. The same post's Miyagawa tasting claim is secondhand and is not supported by this citation.
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Millet · The Tropical Fruit Forum · 2020-08-21
https://www.tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=13853.0 (opens in a new tab)
Millet reply #3 dated August 21, 2020, 07:58:48 PM, answering EricSC's comparison question. Millet recalls that Xie Shan won the taste contest in the year Millet attended an Alabama citrus expo, calls Xie Shan an excellent fruit, and says they would choose Xie Shan if limited to one tree. This is an attributed personal recollection and preference; contest year, organizers, competitors, samples, judging, score, and the tasted accession are not specified. The reply also compares Ponkan, but this citation concerns only Xie Shan.
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