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Zairai Satsuma

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Zairai Satsuma

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Zairai Satsuma

Overview Discussion

Characteristics

Growing & propagation

Hardiness Health & resistance Grafting

Breeding & lineage

Breeding Pedigree

History & sources

History Sources

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Unknown parentage

Zairai Satsuma

Estimated Genetic Ancestry

100% Mandarin

Selections

Ikiriki Satsuma
Kawano Wase Satsuma
Miyagawa Satsuma

Hodgson (1967) treated Zairai not as one cultivar but as a group of similar mandarins of unknown parentage. He also questioned the authenticity of imported Zairai clones.^⁠[2]

Hodgson’s 1967 account labels Zairai “Native.”^⁠[2]