Details for: NA 88876, Citrus ×insitorum Mabb., 'Weeping Dragon'


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Citrus ×insitorum Mabb.
Cultivar:
'Weeping Dragon'
Origin:
Developed – Florida, United States
Maintained:
National Arboretum
Received by NPGS:
28 Feb 2025
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Plant
Life Habit:
Shrub
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Citrus ×insitorum Mabb.
Cultivar:
'Weeping Dragon'
Origin:
Developed – Florida, United States
Maintained:
National Arboretum
Received by NPGS:
28 Feb 2025
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Form Received:
Plant
Life Habit:
Shrub
Source History
Developed
PRE 2016.
Florida, United States

Developer(s):
Donated
28 February 2025.
Florida, United States

Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
'Weeping Dragon'
Type: Cultivar name

US-1111
Type: Donor identifier
USDA-ARS US Horticultural Research Laboratory

NA 88876
Type: Site identifier
Group: NA
U.S. National Arboretum

Narrative
This accession is grafted onto a semi-dwarfing, Huanglongbing (Citrus Greening)-tolerant USDA rootstock introduction, 'US-942', released in 2010. Under the rules of international nomenclature for cultivated plants, the name of the plant is the scion, so its rootstock is merely an aspect of the accession in this case. Plants were brought by Bowman from Florida to the 2025 USDA Agricultural Outlook Forum. Due to regulations restricting interstate movement of Citrus, the plants could not be returned to Florida, and were instead donated to the U.S. National Arboretum.
Citrus ×insitorum Mabb.
Genus:
Citrus
Family:
Rutaceae
Subfamily:
Aurantioideae
Tribe:
Aurantieae
Subtribe:
Citrinae
Nomen number:

490128
Place of publication:

Gard. Bull. Singapore 54:193. 2002
Comment:
a replacement name (nom. nov.) for ×Citroncirus webberi J. W. Ingram & H. E. Moore, non Citrus webberi Wester
Verified:
Name not verified.
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Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Homotypic Synonym(s)
×Citroncirus webberi J. W. Ingram & H. E. Moore

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
EnglishCarrizo citrange as ×Citroncirus webberi1Ruiz, M. et al. 2018. Molecular characterization and stress tolerance evaluation of new allotetraploid somatic hybrids between Carrizo Citrange and Citrus macophylla W. rootstocks. Front. Plant Sci. 9:901. Note: the Citrus tristeza virus is graft transmissible; 'Carrizo citrange' (Citrus × insitorum (as “C. sinensis × Poncirus trifoliata”)) is the most important graft stock of worldwide use, favoring high yield, fruit quality, and being tolerant to CTV but salt-intolerant; through somatic hybridization with Citrus × aurantiifolia (as C. macrophylla), this study obtained two hybrids; these plants combined the parental alleles, but also this study detected that most lost alleles occurred during the somatic hybridization; physiological tests showed that the somatic hybrids were tolerant to salinity; it recognized the potential of somatic hybrids SMC-58 and SMC-73 as graft stocks for areas with CTV and calcareous and saline soils
Englishcitrange as ×Citroncirus webberi1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
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