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  • From: "philip sauber" <mrtejas@lycos.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Severinia buxifolia
  • Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 08:49:02 -0500

I got some from the Galveston County citrus show a few years ago and treated
them the same as a trifoliate seed. Most came up with no special treatment.
Phil
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DATE: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 19:57:03
From: "Dr. Ethan Natelson" <natelson@pipeline.com>
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Cc:

>Dear Group,
>
> At our Southern Fruit Fellowship (SFF) meeting a few months ago, in
>Elizabeth City, NC, I was chatting with Jim Mercer who mentioned that he
>grew all of his citrus, in Florida, grafted on Severinia. He has two types
>of Severinia, and prefers his dwarf cultivar as a rootstock over the
>standard, although both work. He just sent me a package of the Severinia
>fruit in order to generate seedlings to graft with. These are very small,
>hard, greenish berries. My question to any Severiniologists out there, is
>how to germinate these. Do they require stratification or scarification or
>any other manipulation or simply be planted immediately, as we do citrus
>seeds? It is remarkable that this small shrub, when used as a rootstock
>with citrus, produces a moderate sized and well anchored tree, with a nice
>thick trunk and requiring no support.
>
> Regards, Ethan
>
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  • [NAFEX] Severinia buxifolia, Dr. Ethan Natelson, 09/05/2003
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    • Re: [NAFEX] Severinia buxifolia, philip sauber, 09/06/2003

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