That is pretty wild seeing citrus growing that far north. It must be some kind of 'trifoliate orange' or something similar.
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That is pretty wild seeing citrus growing that far north. It must be some kind of 'trifoliate orange' or something similar.
That is what I thought, too. I looked up trifoliate orange, I think it is what we call a sour sprout, but if it lives there I wonder why other oranges wouldn't. Here the grove owners have to place huge heaters in the groves when we have a freeze.
Yeah, I wonder how it would handle having other orange trees grafted onto it.
It appears the trifolate orange can survive in usda zones down to 6 and that is the zone I am in. So this is probably where its habitat is on its extreme edge as it just gets too cold further up. Sounds like its quite stringent tasting, but I am sure just like with crabapples you can turn just about any fruit into something tasty.
Its always cool to find cold hardy varieties of other plants. Cacti really surprise me in that way too.
what I think is someone planted a good orange and the cold killed it back past the graft and for some strange reason it survived the cold and grew back as a sour sprout.