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[Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

At 04:41 PM 04/29/2002 -0400, Chris wrote:
> Does anyone know if "Flying Dragon" is a variety of Poncirus trifoliata or 
> is it a variety of something else?
> How bitter/ tart are the fruits? Can you make anything half pleasant out 
> of the fruits? Marmalade?
> I am not sure, but Edible Landscaping used to sell complex hybrids of 
> Poncirus and Citrus, that were [supposedly] less cold hardy, but more edible.

Chris,
Check out Phil Sauber's Hardy Citrus page, linked below.  He has a feature 
story on an edible Flying Dragon citrange, selected by one of my 
cyberfriends, Mr. Bonnie Childers.

http://members.fortunecity.com/pjsauber/

There's species-type P.trifoliata on the campus of the community college, 
across the street from my office, that I collect fruit/seeds from from time 
to time.  The fruits are quite fragrant, but mostly seed, with very little 
pulp - and what pulp is there is quite tart.
Seems like I recall Donna Hudson writing a post on making marmalade out of 
them, and that it was quite well-received by transplanted Brits as the 
closest thing to the marmalades they had grown up with in the UK.


Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY

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