Citrange

Citrange
Citrange cultivar 'Willett'
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Sapindales
Family:	Rutaceae
Genus:	Citrus
Species:	C. × insitorum
Binomial name
Citrus × insitorum Mabb.
Synonyms[1]
× Citroncirus webberi J.W. Ingram & H.E. Moore 1975

The citrange (a portmanteau of citrus and orange) is a citrus hybrid of the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange.

The purpose of this cross was to attempt to create a cold hardy citrus tree (which is the nature of a trifoliate), with delicious fruit like those of the sweet orange. However, citranges are generally bitter.

Citrange is used as a rootstock for citrus in Morocco, but does not prevent dry root rot or exocortis disease.^[2]

There are several named citrange cultivars,^[3] including the 'Carrizo' citrange^[4] and the 'Troyer' citrange.^[5] Both resulted from a hybrid between the trifoliate orange and the Washington navel orange. There is also a cultivar called 'Rusk' which resulted from a cross between a Ruby orange and a trifoliate orange.^[6][7]

• Citrangequat
• List of citrus diseases
• University of California, Riverside Citrus Variety Collection

• Citrange photos
• Lemon on Troyer Citrange Root; bud-union and rootstock disorder of Troyer citrange with Eureka lemon tops under study in effort to identify cause
• The Citrange Story
• Citrange fruit extracts alleviate obesity-associated metabolic disorder in high-fat diet-induced obese C57BL/6 mouse.
• Population of Endogenous Pararetrovirus Genomes in Carrizo Citrange