Kiyomi

Kiyomi
group	Citrus
origin	Japan
known since	1949
ancestry
	Hybrid of ; Citrus × unshiu × Citrus sinensis

Kiyomi ( 清見 ) is a Japanese citrus fruit that is a hybrid of ( Citrus × unshiu × Citrus sinensis ). The Satsuma of the Miyagawa Wase variety and the Orange Citrus sinensis were crossed. The then new variety was the first tangerine that was given a breeding name in Japan in 1949. Kiyomi was named after the temple Seiken-ji ( 清見寺 ) and the lagoon Kiyomi Gata ( 清見潟 ) near her breeding laboratory in Shizuoka and registered in 1979 as "Tangor Nōrin No. 1".

Variety description

Kiyomi are cute. The sugar content is usually 11 to 12 ° Brix and reaches up to 13 ° Bx if the conditions are met. The citric acid content is around 1%. The fruit is seedless and ripens between mid and late March. The taste is similar to that of Satsuma, the aroma that of orange.

Kiyomi is monogerm , so it is often used as the parent citrus to create new hybrids, including Dekopon .

Web links

Kiyomi. ( Memento of May 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). At: The National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO). (Japanese).

Individual evidence

↑ Trovita sweet orange . University of California Riverside.
↑ Tangor agricultural and forestry No.1 ( タンゴール農林 1 号 )
↑ Masao Nishiura: Kiyomi: A new variety of citrus . (PDF, 450 kB) In: Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Japan (ed.): Bulletin of Fruit Tree Research Station B . No. 10: 1-9, 1983.

[1] Trovita sweet orange . University of California Riverside.

[2] Tangor agricultural and forestry No.1 ( タンゴール農林 1 号 )

[Nishiura-3] Masao Nishiura: Kiyomi: A new variety of citrus . (PDF, 450 kB) In: Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry Japan (ed.): Bulletin of Fruit Tree Research Station B . No. 10: 1-9, 1983.