Volume 48 Number 4 Article 12
Year 1994 Month 10
Title: 'Cipo' Sweet Orange and its Unique Growth Habit
Author: K.D. Bowman
Abstract:
'Cipo' is a seedy, mid-season sweet orange
(Citrus sinensis [L.] Osbeck) with a distinctive
procumbent or 'weeping" growth habit.
Fruit
characteristics of 'Cipo are very similar to
'Pineapple' sweet orange, a cultiyar commonly
grown for juice production in Florida.
Apomictic
Cipo' seedlings 24 to 40 weeks old were dif
ferent from apomictic 'Pineapple' seedlings for
several aspects of vegetative morphology, in
cluding horizontal or weeping growth of the
terminal shoot, broader shoot-petiole angle, and
perhaps greater branching.
Preliminary observa
tions indicate that these traits are transmitted
from 'Cipo' to some hybrid progeny.
These
'Cipo' characteristics may have potential value
for the development of unique ornamental or
dwarf citrus cultivars and for use as genetic
markers.
Efforts are underway to define the
inheritance of the 'Cipo' growth habit and to
transmit it to scion and rootstock hybrids for
further testing.
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