Smith Red Valencia Explained
Smith Red Valencia is a pigmented bud sport of a conventional Valencia orange tree.
An initial scientific report stated:
Although red inside, the Smith Red is a Valencia and not a blood orange. Researchers were made aware of it in 1988 when a woman named Merleen Smith in Ventura County, California contacted a local farm advisor on the suspicion that her neighbor was poisoning her tree; the cultivar now bears her name.[1]
References
- Web site: Smith Red "Valencia" orange . Toni . Siebert . Citrus Variety Collection . . . https://web.archive.org/web/20100624090113/http://www.citrusvariety.ucr.edu/citrus/smithred.html . 24 June 2010 . dead . 11 August 2010 .
- Web site: Smith's red valencia . Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) . USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program . Beltsville, Maryland . https://archive.today/20121213002941/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/acc/display.pl?1705116 . 13 December 2012 . dead . 11 August 2010 .
Notes and References
- Web site: Orange - Smith Red Valencia . https://web.archive.org/web/20170113162433/https://www.gardenamerica.com/store/Orange-Smith-Red-Valencia.html . dead . January 13, 2017 . gardenamerica.com . 12 January 2017.
