 | This articleneeds additional citations forverification. Please helpimprove this article byadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Smith Red Valencia" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(August 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this message) |
| Smith Red Valencia | |
|---|---|
| Species | Citrus × sinensis |
| Hybrid parentage | pummelo ×mandarin orange |
| Cultivar | 'Smith Red Valencia' |
| Origin | Ventura County, California, United States |
Smith Red Valencia is a pigmentedbud sport of a conventionalValencia orange tree.
An initial scientific report stated:
Therind frequently carries a heavy red blush and the flesh is heavily pigmented byanthocyanin. The fruit shape is somewhat variable at present, globose to ovoid with a depressed base, possibly due to the juvenility of the subject trees. Although the fruit is mature in late winter, it holds well into late spring, well past the season for conventionalblood oranges.
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 inVentura County, California contacted a local farm advisor on the suspicion that her neighbor was poisoning her tree; the cultivar now bears her name.[1]
