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  • From: "V. Michael Bove Jr." <vmb@teakettlefarm.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] lemon juice substitute - Rumex spp.
  • Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:49:51 -0500

I'd suspect that something that was only 1/4 poncirus wouldn't work north of zone 7 or 8; the half-changsha citrandarins we tested here weren't reliably hardy below 10F even when we protected them with burlap and put them in a relatively sheltered place.

(So we still make our whiskey sours here with poncirus juice -- which is better than it sounds if you use a lot of sugar and dilute the juice about 4:1).

Michael Bove
Teakettle Farm, Z6 (MA/RI border)

On Dec 1, 2008, at 6:54 PM, Bob Randall wrote:

I'm not sure how far north the best of the trifoliate crosses will go,
but I have plenty of seeds of a citrus called Roundleaf (Sanford
citrange x changsha mandarin) originally called sancichang # 10 by Dr
Brown who made the cross.

I would guess it could be hardy to zero degrees F--perhaps more
perhaps less. It is sour and if you stay away from the skin which has
some trifoliate gum cells, has a juice that is basically sour and
edible enough. I use it here where tasty things grow as a decoy plant
to keep sidewalk visitors from hopping the fence and don't eat it.
The fruit looks a bit like a Seville orange. That is somewhat like an
orange. I have neighbors who come back and pick it every year, so it
is certainly decent enough.

Bob Randall
Houston





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