Arajon
Arajon pomelo came from Francis Heiney at Brawley in 1935; it has dark pink, coarse flesh and many seeds. Its tree isn't wholly thornless, despite an earlier claim.
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Taste & texture
- Texture
- Flesh graincoarse flesh
observation location: Riverside, California · source date: 1/19/1989
citrusvariety.ucr.edu ↗Context & source
Named accession observation or attributed description in the UCR Citrus Variety Collection. Its date, place and applicable conditions remain attached.
Original record: Arajon was received from Francis Heiney at Brawley in 1935. Historical Riverside tasting notes describe dark pink, coarse flesh and many seeds; a later note corrects the earlier claim that the tree was wholly thornless.
- /details/observations/0/value/0/scope
- Collection source observation, not independently confirmed global cultivar identity
- /interpretation/context
- observation location: Riverside, California · source date: 1/19/1989
- /reviewed claim/context
- Historical Riverside tasting notes describe dark pink, coarse flesh and many seeds
How to spot it
- Flesh
- dark pink
observation location: Riverside, California · source date: 1/19/1989
citrusvariety.ucr.edu ↗Context & source
Named accession observation or attributed description in the UCR Citrus Variety Collection. Its date, place and applicable conditions remain attached.
Original record: Arajon was received from Francis Heiney at Brawley in 1935. Historical Riverside tasting notes describe dark pink, coarse flesh and many seeds; a later note corrects the earlier claim that the tree was wholly thornless.
- /details/observations/0/value/0/scope
- Collection source observation, not independently confirmed global cultivar identity
- /interpretation/context
- observation location: Riverside, California · source date: 1/19/1989
- /reviewed claim/context
- Historical Riverside tasting notes describe dark pink, coarse flesh and many seeds
- Seeds & stone
- many seeds
observation location: Riverside, California · source date: 1/19/1989
citrusvariety.ucr.edu ↗Context & source
Named accession observation or attributed description in the UCR Citrus Variety Collection. Its date, place and applicable conditions remain attached.
Original record: Arajon was received from Francis Heiney at Brawley in 1935. Historical Riverside tasting notes describe dark pink, coarse flesh and many seeds; a later note corrects the earlier claim that the tree was wholly thornless.
- /details/observations/0/value/0/scope
- Collection source observation, not independently confirmed global cultivar identity
- /interpretation/context
- observation location: Riverside, California · source date: 1/19/1989
- /reviewed claim/context
- Historical Riverside tasting notes describe dark pink, coarse flesh and many seeds
Field notes
Original source notes
ucr profile observations
- scope
- Collection source observation, not independently confirmed global cultivar identity
- summary
- Arajon was received from Francis Heiney at Brawley in 1935. Historical Riverside tasting notes describe dark pink, coarse flesh and many seeds; a later note corrects the earlier claim that the tree was wholly thornless.
- source url
- citrusvariety.ucr.edu ↗
- accession id
- accession:ucr-crc-2596