SWINGLE CITRUMELO TRIFOLIATE HYBRID(Cold Hardy Grapefruit) Zone 7-8



We grow and sell these in Full Gal, 3-Gal, and 5-Gal at various times of the year


• · Cold hardy Grapefruit easily to 15 degrees F some people say down in single digits,

  but not scientifically documented to such
  

· Cold hardy Grapefruit easily to 15 degrees F some people say down in single digits,

· but not scientifically documented to such.

· Grapefruit hybrid with large rounded fruit.

· · Flesh is white and sweet to the taste with sugar.

· Developed by Walter Tennyson Swingle from Duncan grapefruit and trifoliate orange.

· Scientific name: Poncirus trifoliata x Citrus paradis

· Rootstock used extensively for other citrus.

· Will grow to 5-6 feet at maturity and yield 40-50 fruit, bears at age 1-2 years.

· Self-fertile.

· Fruit tastes like a cross between a lemon and a grapefruit with smooth yellow skin.

· Very resistant to citrus virus, root rot, blight, cold, and citrus nematode.

· · Evergreen leaves are large.

· · Fruit ripens in Nov-Jan and is approximately 4".

· · Zone 7-8 very atypically cold hardy.

ORANGE CALAMONDIN ORANGE TREE-Citrus mitis Zone 8b

• GROWN MORE FOR LANDSCAPE ORNAMENTAL THAN FRUIT ALTHOUGH FRUIT EDIBLE-small at 1 1/2 inches in circumference very acid
• My wife is Filapino and she makes a really good citrussy drink from this fruit!!
• Interesting and beautiful Patio/container plant or hedge to 15 feet at maturity
• Moderately drought tolerant
• Peel is this and smooth and peels eaisly
• Full sun to partial shade
• Can flower year-round most fruit set is in spring
• Fruiting in fall/winter
• Zone 8b will freeze, carry inside in winter

GRAPEFRUIT RIO RED GRAPEFRUIT- Citrus paradisi Zone 8b

• Full sun
• 10 to 20' tall at maturity
• Self-fertile
• Bears fruit March – September. Fruits ripen on the tree from late fall into winter.
• Large, yellow-skinned fruits with deep red flesh, and delicious sweet flavor.
  
• Must be taken in for the winter or covered; will freeze until older
• Potent antioxidant
• Zone 8b-11

• · The bartender's lime with the added bonus of having no thorns

• · Mature fruit is small, green to yellow green ripening in July to December

• · Best grown in areas with long summers and frost free winters or greenhouse in winter

• · Full sun

• · 12-15 in height 6-8 width at maturity

• · Blooms early Spring

• Zone 10

OWARI SATSUMA MANDARIN ORANGE- Citrus reticulata SATSUMA MANDARIN 'Owari' ZONE: 9a

• Cold hardy...the hardiest Satsuma Orange tree, developed byTexas A & M, for the Houston area and most of East Texas

• Evergreen tree produces excellent fruit

• Fragrant white spring flower most of the year favorite of bees and butterflies
• Fruit ripens in Winter
• Seedless and easy peeling
• 10-12 feet tall at maturity 6 foot in container
• Disease and pest resistant as well as cold tolerant
• Zone 9a(20-25) in demand because of cold tolerance

BROWN SELECT SATSUMA ORANGE- Citrus unshiu Brown Select SATSUMA ZONE: 9a

• · Evergreen tree produces excellent fruit

  · Another one of the cold hardiest of the Satsumas

  · One of the earliest to ripen Satsuma, usually two to three weeks ahead of Owari

  · Can reach normally 7-10 feet, but can reach 12 feet in height or does well in container

  · The Brown Select Satsuma tree originated as a selected seedling of Kimbrough Satsuma tangerine in Louisiana.

  · Delicate white blooms are favorites of bees and butterflies

  · Succulent sweet fruit ripens in late October to December

  · Delicious and healthy and peels easily

  · The fruit is often seedless

  · Self fertile

  · Zone 9a(20-25F) in high demand because of cold tolerance

MIHO SATSUMA MANDARIN ORANGE- Citrus reticulata MIHO Zone: 9a

• Cold hardy...the hardiest Satsuma Orange tree, developed byTexas A & M, for the Houston area and most of East Texas to 20-25F degrees

  · Evergreen tree produces excellent fruit

  · Fragrant white spring flower most of the year favorite of bees and butterflies

  · Fruit ripens in Late Fall and Winter

  · Seedless and easy peeling

  · 10-12 feet tall at maturity 6 foot wide

  · Disease and pest resistant as well as cold tolerant

  · Zone 9a(20-25F) in demand because of cold tolerance

NAVEL ORANGE-Citrus sinesis 'Osbeck' Zone: 9a

We grow and sell these in Gal, Full Gal, 3-Gal, 5-Gal, and 7 Gal at various times of the year.

· Cold hardy...to zone 9a

• · Evergreen tree produces excellent fruit

  · Fragrant white spring flower most of the year favorite of bees and butterflies

  · Fruit ripens in Late Fall and Winter

  · Mostly Seedless and easy peeling

  · 10-12 feet tall at maturity 12 foot wide

  · Disease and pest resistant as well as cold tolerant

  · Zone 9a

RED NAVEL ORANGE– Citrus sinensis Cara Cara ZONE 9a

We grow and sell these in Gal, Full Gal, 3-Gal, 5-Gal, and 7 Gal at various times of the year.



· Cold hardy...to zone 9a

· Evergreen tree produces excellent fruit

· Fragrant white spring flower most of the year favorite of bees and butterflies

· Self-Fertile

· Pink Navel Oranges Fruit ripens in November to February

· Most popular over all varieties of oranges

· 4-9 feet tall at maturity

· Disease and pest resistant as well as cold tolerant

· Zone 9a

HAMLIN SWEET ORANGE-Citrus sinensis Hamlin Zone 9a

We grow and sell these in Gal, Full Gal, 3-Gal, 5-Gal, and 7 Gal at various times of the year.

· Most widely grown sweet orange in Florida


· Among the most cold tolerant of the larger oranges

· Probably originated in China, India, and Asia

· Highly attractive to honey bees because of sweet blossoms

· Hamlin is an old cultivar from as early as 1879

· Fruit ripens early in Winter

· Likes plenty of fertilizer, 20-40' tall 12-20 wide


· The whole orange tree is usable: Culinarily and medicinally, the wood is used for furniture, the pulp for animal feed, the oil is extracted for cleaning, as a pesticide, and from soap to perfume, tasty food, and to attract the Giant Swallowtail Butterfly for larval food.

· Zone 9a

• · Originated with Italian and Spanish immigrants in the 1930s
• · Highly attractive to honey bees because of sweet blossoms
• · The reddish coloration is due to Anthocyanin, peeling is almost always with a reddish tint
• · Smaller than common orange, with pitted skin, although in some cases may be smooth
• · Apart from delicious taste and aroma, it is used by chefs because of visual appeal Of all blood oranges in USA, is most prominent
• · High amounts of Vitamin C, two oranges exceed daily amount for one person, one orange is 70 calories and high in fiber and help lower blood pressure
• · Fruit ripens in Winter, Fragrant blooms usually in spring
• · 10-12 Feet tall and wide
• · Full sun to partial shade
• · Adapts to wide range of soil conditions and climate
• · Pest and disease-resistant
• · Zone 9a

PAGE MANDARIN Orange-Citrus reticulata Zone 9b

• · Mature height 8-10 feet 4-6 width
• · Full Sun
• · Drought tolerance great moderate growth rate
• · Blooms in spring fragrant harvest in Oct-Dec.
• · Fruit 1^st year
• · Excellent flavor easy to peel
• · All tangerines are mandarins, but all mandarins are not tangerines: four groups mandarins…most prevalent in Texas are Satsumas and Tangerines
• · Most mandarins are more erect than other citrus
• · Most are self-pollinating and self fruitful
• · Most have a heavy crop one year and a lighter crop the next
• · Mandarins are grown in tropical and subtropical areas with them being the most cold hardy of all citrus being only second to kumquats
• · Most are grafted to Trifoliate and/or Flying Dragon trifoliate root stock
• · Zone 9b

Clementine Mandarin Orange-Citrus reticulata ‘Clementine’ Zone: 9

· 10-12 feet tall at maturity and 15 feet wide

· Attracts butterflies and bees, bird friendly with fragrant flowers

· Origin Asian/Mediterranean Tropical

· A wonderful patio tree with luscious fruit

· Clementine Trees are hybrids between Mandarin Oranges and Sweet Orange Trees

· Some say a French Monk named Marie-Clement Rodier produced the hybrid, while others attribute it to China years before Rdier

· Made it to America about 1909

· Although Tangerines and Clementines are both linked to Mandarins, Clementines Taste very sweet while tangerines are sour.

· Easy to peel and broken apart to 8-14 sections

· Nutrients found in Clementines include fiber, calcium, potassium, and Vitamin C

• Zone: 9

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PONKAN MANDARIN TANGERINE TREE- Citrus reticulata 20-25 feet Zone 8b

· Evergreen with a growth habit round

· Self fertile

· One of the oldest and most popular mandarin tangerines, due to it’s rich sweet flavor

· Ponkan tangerine tree is distinctive for its oblate shape fruit, often having a short collar or neck

· The sweet, tender, juicy flesh is pleasantly aromatic and has a rich, bright orange color

· Ripening early it’s a good choice for short season areas Nov-Jan.

· 20-25 feet tall at maturity

· Attracts butterflies and bees, bird friendly with fragrant flowers

· Origin India/Mediterranean Tropical

· A wonderful patio tree with luscious fruit

· Although Tangerines are linked to Mandarins, Ponkan Tangerines Taste very sweet while many tangerines are sour.

· Easy to peel, Ripening early it’s a good choice for short season areas Nov-Jan.

· Nutrients include fiber, calcium, potassium, and Vitamin C

ORLANDO TANGELO TREE- HYBRID GRAPEFRUIT AND TANGERINE 12-20 feet Zone 9

· Evergreen

· Orlando’s blossoms are self-incompatible, and must be pollinated by a suitable pollinator, a grapefruit or other tangelo or most citrus

· Orlando Tangelos are a hybrid of Duncan Grapefruit and a Dancy Tangerine

· When the Orlando tangelo was first cultivated, it was known by the name Lake tangelo and been around since 1911

· It has few characteristics of either fruit. Orlando Tangelos closely resemble an orange in color, They are very sweet and juicy

· The size and shape of the fruit have a resemblance to a tangerine

· Grow to a large size 12-20 feet tall at maturity, and recognized by their cup-shaped leaves

· Attracts butterflies and bees, bird friendly with fragrant flowers

· A wonderful patio tree with luscious fruit

· Orlando tangelos are available from mid-November to the beginning of December, The skin is thin and fairly easy to peel

· Nutrients include fiber, calcium, potassium, and Vitamin C

• Orlando Tangelos are one of the most cold-tolerate varieties of Tangelo

· Tangelos can be grown outdoors in USDA zones 9 - 11, or as a container-grown tree in other regions of the U.S. if brought indoors for the winteer
Zone: 9

Sweet Kumquat-Fortunella crassifolia Meiwa Zone: 8a

• · Kids love them
• · Compact small growing tree ideal for container plantings or short hedges
• · Height 10-12 feet in the ground
• · Self fertile with fruit ripening in Oct-Ded.
• · Kumquats are entirely edible, rind, flesh, and occasional soft seeds
• · Skin is thick smooth oily peel with aromatic fragrances and sweet flavor
• · Flesh is not overly juicy and tart
• · Only by eating both the skin and flesh will its perfect sweet-tart flavor balance be experienced
• · Average size of a kumquat is about one inch in diameter
• · Zone 8a after established (10-15 degrees F)

We grow and sell these in Gal, Full Gal, 2-Gal, 3-Gal, and 5-Gal at various times of the year

· Broadleaf evergreen

• · Height 10-20 Width 12-18
• · Seasonal bloomer may bloom up to four times per year
• · Blooms white showy fragrant
• · Fruit is huge sometimes 6-9” in diameter
• · Do well in well drained soil, but also in swampy ground along bank of creeks and rivers
• · Zone: 8b-9 (light freezes to 32 degrees will not survive at 26 degrees F)

SUNBURST TANGERINE-CITRUS reticulata ‘Sunburst’ Semi-self fertile Zone: 8b

1. Citrus reticulata ‘Sunburst’

2. Beautiful in bloom and smell when in bloom

3. Deep Orange color appears early in the season and is an indicator of high sugar content and high acidity

4. Very juicy, some seeds, not zipper-skin

5. The Vigorous, upright tree tends to be alternate-bearing

6. Fruit benefits from thinning in heavy production years

7. Grafted to Trifoliate rootstock

8. Grows to 12-14 feet Tall and 8-10 wide

9. Semi-Self Fertile.

10. Fruit ripens in November/December

11. We recommend another Tangerine, Tangelo, or Orange for Pollination and better fruit production.

12. Spacing 8-10 feet

13. Part to full sunlight

14. Widely grown commercially

15. Fruit Segments typically 11-14

16. The rind is thin, smooth, and somewhat easily removed

17. Zone: 8b, can be grown in containers in all other areas

CHANDLER RED PUMMELO-Citrus maxima Chandler Zone: 9a

We grow and sell these in Full Gal, 3-Gal, 5-Gal, and 7 gal at various times of the year

· Grapefruit hybrid with large rounded fruit

• · Flesh is pink and sweet to the taste
• · Originally from Asia and Malasia
• · Mostly no seeds
• · Medium to large tree with spreading habit but can be grown in containers in ground 16 to 40 feet
• · Evergreen leaves are large
• · Fruit ripens in Dec-Jan
• · Zone 9a after established (20-25 degrees F)

VALENCIA ORANGE-Citrus sinensis Valencia Zone: 9a

1. Primarily grown for processing and orange juice production
2. Valencia oranges have seeds, varying in number from zero to nine per fruit.
3. Its excellent taste and internal color make it desirable for the fresh fruit markets, too.
4. The fruit has an average diameter of 2.7 to 3 inches (69 to 76 mm; 6.9 to 7.6 cm)
5. After bloom, it usually carries two crops on the tree, the old and the new.
6. The commercial harvest season in Florida runs from March to June.
7. Worldwide, Valencia oranges are prized as the only variety of orange in season during summer.

• · Zone 9a

SHIRANUI MANDARIN Orange-Citrus reticulata SHIRANUI Zone 9b

The "Topknot" Fruit Sweet Shiranui Mandarin

• Intensely Sweet Flavor
• Extraordinarily Popular
• Aromatic and Satisfying Snack
• Very Large Mandarin
• Easy to Peel and Segment
• Fruit is Bumpy and Homely...But Kinda Cute, Too
• Excellent Landscape Tree
• Fragrant, White Flowers
• Large, Broad-Leaved Evergreen Foliage
• Tolerates High Heat
• Silly Deer Don't Prefer the Taste

• · Zone 9b

ORANGE BUMPER SATSUMA MANDARIN ORANGE TREE- Citrus reticulata 'Gremoy8' Zone 9a

• Glossy green foliage
• Fragrant flowers spring and summer
  
• Fruit in winter and early spring
• Sweet tart flavor, seedless, with easy peeling fruit
• 10-12 feet tall at maturity; 5-7 feet in a container
  
• Full sun
• Zone 9a(20-25F)
  

• Key Lime, Bartender's Lime, West Indian Lime
• Plant bushy moderate sized to 12 Feet
• Leaves distinctly aromatic
• Must be moved inside in the winter...will freeze
• Most areas are thorny
• Fragrant white bloom throughout the year
• Fruit harvest from Autumn to Winter prolific fruiting, worth it!
• Fruit is 1 1/2 inches in diameter, almost round, smooth greenish-yellow rind
• We raise them in Gallon, Full Gal., 3-Gal, and 5-Gal. available at various times of the year.
  
• Zone 9 tropical

• 8-10 FEET TALL X 12 FEET WIDE AT MATURITY
• Fruit medium sized with smooth yellow-orange rind moderately seedy
• Flowers purple-tinted throughout the year with fruit ripening in the winter
  
• Nearly thornless
• Introduced from China in 1908
  
• Zone 9

• 8-10 FEET TALL X 12 FEET WIDE AT MATURITY
• One of the most widely-grown lemons, believed to be a Galiego seedling selection of Portuguese origin.
• Lisbon lemons trees are grow vigorously into large thorny, upright but spreading trees.
• Fruit medium sized with medium-thick rind that is smooth and bright yellow when mature.
• The finely pitted oil glands produced when scratched a citrusy aroma.
• Pale yellow flesh has few to no seeds and is very juicy and acidic.
• Usual ones seen in grocery stores.
• Flowers and new growth are purple-tinted throughout the year with fruit ripening in the winter
• Zone 9

VARIEGATED MEYER PINK LEMON- Citrus limon 'Variegated Meyer' Zone 9

• Self-fertile
• Variegated leaves and fruit
• 8-10 feet at maturity
• Fragrant blooms
• Flesh is pink and tart makes a perfect pink lemonade
• Zone 9

DANCY TANGERINE-Citrus reticulata Dancy Zone: 9b hardy to 30 degrees

Dancy tree is large, vigorous, densely-foliated tree upright spreading nearly thornless

Tendency to alternate-bearing

Flesh is deep orange with rich flavor

Sweet taste with tart aftertaste

Spicy with a lower acidity level than oranges therefore sweeter

Rind is this smooth reddish-orange easily peeled

Moderate number of seeds

Fruits store well after harvest

Height 10-12 feet Width 10-12 feet

Fast growing

Harvest in Nov-Dec

Semi-Shade to full sun

Zone: 9b hardy to 30 degrees

ORANGE ARCTIC FROST SATSUMA MANDARIN- Citrus reticulata 'Gremoy79' ZONE: 8b

• Small spreading tree 8-12 feet at maturity
• Super cold hardy, along with Orange Frost, Texas A & M, says that this Orange bush is the hardiest for our Houston area and in East Texas
  
• Fragrant white blooms in spring and various times of the year
  
• Fruit in early winter
• Grows well in a container
  
• Seedless juicy easy peeling fruit
• One of most cold tolerant Satsumas along with Orange Frost Satsuma
• Superstar plant per Texas A & M Article: http://today.agrilife.org/2015/06/10/arctic-frost-satsuma-mandarin-hybrid-named-new-texas-superstar/
  
• Zone 8b Will take a 17 degree freeze

Orange Frost™Satsuma- Citrus reticulata 'Gremoy47' 8b

NOTE: ONLY GROWING GRAFTED 5 GAL ANYMORE--THESE CAN BE SHIPPED--5 GAL

We grow and sell these in 5-Gal and 7-Gal at various times of the year we no longer have smaller gals, as the wholesale supplier has changed both the size of the pots and the pricing. BUT THESE ARE NO LONGER BUSHES BUT TREES 4-8 FEET!!!

· Small spreading tree 8-12 feet at maturity

· Super cold hardy, along with Arctic Frost, Texas A & M, says that this Orange bush is the hardiest for our Houston area and in East Texas

· Fragrant white blooms in spring and various times of the year

· Fruit in early winter

· Grows well in a container

· Seedless juicy easy peeling fruit

· One of most cold tolerant Satsumas along with Orange Frost Satsuma

· Superstar plant per Texas A & M Article: http://today.agrilife.org/2015/06/10/arctic-frost-satsuma-mandarin-hybrid-named-new-texas-superstar/

· Zone 8b Will take a 17 degree freeze