Orangevariety

US SunDragon

A crisp orange crossed in 1999 and introduced in 2018.

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Released 2018

OrangeFruit

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Taste & texture

Bite
crisp

How to spot it

Weight
Fruit weight
200-475 g

Register-described fruit or cluster measurements in the source trial context; treatment-specific observations are not species-wide constants.

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Context & source
/details/observations/1/value/fruit mass g/scope
Register-described fruit or cluster measurements in the source trial context; treatment-specific observations are not species-wide constants.
/details/observations/1/value/fruit mass g/observations/0/qualifier
as_reported

Harvest & storage

Harvest
if harvested early, fruit often have a slight off-taste (sometimes described as soapy) to many but not most consumers, but when fully mature the off-taste is no longer present, ripens October-January in Florida.

Origin & family

Where US SunDragon began

Crossed
1999
Released
2018

Field notes

Soluble solids (°Brix)
11 °Brix

Register-described fruit or cluster measurements in the source trial context; treatment-specific observations are not species-wide constants. · qualifier: approximate

journals.ashs.org ↗
Context & source
/details/observations/1/value/soluble solids brix/scope
Register-described fruit or cluster measurements in the source trial context; treatment-specific observations are not species-wide constants.
/details/observations/1/value/soluble solids brix/observations/0/qualifier
approximate
Original source notes
Harvestif harvested early, fruit often have a slight off-taste (sometimes described as soapy) to many but not most consumers, but when fully mature the off-taste is no longer present, ripens October-January in Florida.
Measurements
Fruit weight (g)
200-475
Soluble solids (°Brix)
scope
Register-described fruit or cluster measurements in the source trial context; treatment-specific observations are not species-wide constants.
observations
qualifier
approximate
value
11
values
11

Register-described fruit or cluster measurements in the source trial context; treatment-specific observations are not species-wide constants.

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