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1 2 General Citru care Decription Note: availability of each variety ubject to eaonal variation; we will let you know at the time of your order. Citru all need free drainage and conitent moiture level in the oil. If you have heavy oil, make a raied mound m diameter before planting. They need protection from wind and frot, but ome varietie are more cold hardy or heat demanding than other. They are gro feeder and love a dreing of chicken manure, other animal manure or blood and bone pread around the drip line at leat 3 time a year: pring, early ummer and early autumn. They need good level of Magneium a well, provided by dolomite lime or Epom alt. Mulch well to keep down weed and retain oil moiture, making ure the mulch doe not come into contact with the tem. Alway try to plant Lemon and Grapefruit away from eedle varietie of citru. Now here' the tough bit. Remove all fruit for the t year after planting, to encourage your tree to end it energy into developing a trong bae for many year of fruiting ahead. Citru in general don't need pruning except to form them a little a young tree. When picking fruit, it i bet to do it with a pair of ecateur rather than pulling the fruit off, leaving the talk button on the fruit, and ideally clipping back the hoot to a new lateral growing further back from the harveted fruit. 3 4 Citru Roottock (Ponciru trifoli ) roottock i able to withtand variou oil condition including heavy wet oil, (however MUST be free draining,) i root rot (Phytophthora )reitant and produce very high quality, thin kinned, great flavoured fruit. (P. trifoli var montroa ) roottock i a election of trifoli and i dwarfing and i ueful for the larger tree if you don't want them to grow too big, (reduce the height by about /3). Alo good if you are planning on containeriing your citru, although not likely here on GBI a watering then become eential! FD increae the cold hardine of the tree. Production per tree i increaed. tree have a hallow root ytem o don't ue thi for planting tree in a windy location, and mulch well.

2 Grapefruit Grapefruit C. maxima x C. reticul Golden Special $ $ July- November Grapefruit C. maxima x C. Cutler Red $ $ July/Augut Lemon C.limon Lemon Genoa $ July-Dec protect from frot and wind Lemon Lemonade $ July-Aug Decription The New Zealand grapefruit i a pummelo (C.maxima ) croed with a mandarin (C. reticul ) and i not a true grapefruit at all, in fact it i more of a tangelo!! Wheeney came into NZ from Autralia, probably from a miliar cro, and i cloer to the pummelo. Star Ruby i a true grapefruit, but need very warm condition to do well. Alo called the Poorman Orange. Hardy, large, thin-kinned, juicy deliciou weet fruit. Golden kin with orange fleh and few eed. Heavy cropper. Improved from the well-known Morrion Seedle. The bet for breakfat, drink and marmalade. Can prune to keep height down. Coloured port of Golden Special. Deep orangey red kin and fruit. Excellent flavour. Very imilar to Golden Special in quality. Good bearer. Such a wide choice of varietie here! Eential in any garden! Squeezed on freh fih, lemon curd, G&T, lemon riotto (ak u for thi amazing recipe!) Eureka type of lemon. Tree maller than other lemon and i well uited to mot home garden. Bear heavily while till young and produce a heavy ummer crop. Not really a true Lemon but look like one. Produce heavy crop of pale lemon fruit which peel eaily. The flavour i like a mild grapefruit and i very deliciou and refrehing. Eaten freh from the tree or juiced. Spreading buhy hape with ditinctive pale green leave. Loved by children. Lemon Libon Seedle $ $ July on mot Thi i a large growing thorny tree. It i one of the hardiet lemon, tolerant of tolerant of both heat and cold. The harp, fullflavoured fruit are large with thick, lightly heat, wind rough textured kin. Heavy cropper almot year round. Can prune to keep and cold. height down.

3 Lemon Meyer $ $ nearly all year round, motly winter/pring Lemon Yen Ben $ n/a June-March Lime C. aurantifolia Lime Bearr C. latifolia $ $ June-Aug, November, Feb-March very hardy Lime Kaffir C. hytrix $ n/a need very warm pot Decription Highly productive, reliable mall compact growing tree with thornle tem that i the mot cold hardy variety of lemon. Excellent choice for mall backyard or container. Large crop of high quality, mooth kinned, weet juicy fruit which can be enjoyed freh off the tree. It i quick to fruit. Cutting grown plant give a lower, more buhy habit, but are uceptible to Phytophthora (root rot) Improved Libon election, large oval haped fruit, mooth kinned with a thin rind and low number of eed. The fleh i very juicy and harply acidic. Produce abundantly throughout the year with over 60% of harvetable fruit developing in winter. A denely foliaged, fat growing, vigorou upright grower. A main export variety. Lime can be ued green when they are conidered immature right through to when they turn yellow when they are fully ripe. The mot tangy 'Lime' flavour i obtained when the fruit are half way between and are coloured a yellow-green.however, it i very difficult to produce green lime in NZ a fruit turn yellow with the cold in winter. It i the cold that give all citru their colour. Early and hardier election of Tahitian lime. Small to medium ized deep green fruit truning lime yellow at maturity, with thin kin. True lime flavor with eedle, juicy, acidic fleh. Very reliable in their fruit et and heavy cropper. Hardy, vigorou, upright plant with luh deep green leave and few if any thorn. Medium height. Thi i the bet lime for the home garden. e lot of un and heat for maximum fruit. Bear in 2-3 year. About.5 mhigh. Small bumpy green, eedy, thick-kinned, very acidic fruit. Rind and unique aromatic double-lobed leaf i ued in Middle-Eatern and Aian cooking. Flower can be ued in tea. Compact thorny hrub.

4 25 Lime Kuaie Lime $ $ all year round frot free, otherwie hardiet lime Lime Tahitian $ Decription Kuaie lime i a relatively new citru variety, and tand out with it particularly intene, harp lime flavour. It' frot tender but the mot cold reitant lime. Prolific ropper, with a main crop in ummer and more throughout the year. Attractive tree. Small mooth kinned fruit colour from green to pale yellow when ripe, then through to orange when very ripe. Mae of fragrant white bloom with an attractive pink tinge. The peel i eay to remove. m Mandarin C. reticul Mandarin/T angerine Mandarin/T angerine Cline $ n/a July on Corica #2 $ n/a June/July Mandarin Encore $ $ Sept-Feb The firt Mandarin to ripen. Form a uperb compact ornamental tree with attractive foliage, fragrant flower and deep orange kinned fruit. Juicy, weet, highly flavoured fruit. Fruit hang on tree in good condition for month. Avoid planting cloe to other citru becaue cro pollination will lead to very eedy fruit. Eay to grow. Suceptible to cab. 2m. Improved cline type, with larger fruit and le pip. Tangy very weet flavour. Peel eaily and cleanly. Heavy crop. Compact buhy growth, with mallih dene leave. Vigorou upright tree, large crop of medium ized, very juicy and weet, rich flavoured, thin kinned, firm flehed, almot eedle, eay peel fruit. Can hold on tree for a long period. Ripen Nov/December holding fruit until around Feb/March. 2m. Mandarin Richard' Special $ n/a Aug -Oct frot free Popular high quality large weet eay peel mandarin with excellent flavour. warm pot Bright green foliage. Tall vigorou tree. 2m

5 Mandarin Satuma C. unhiu Mandarin Satuma $ April-July Mandarin Satuma Miho $ $ April-May very warm ite Mandarin Mandarin Mandarin Satuma Okitu Wae Satuma Miyagawa Wae Satuma Silverhill $ May June very warm ite $ early June very warm ite $ Jun-July on cold reitant Orange C. ineni Orange Bet' Seedle $ Sept- November Orange Cara Cara $ $ Augut/Sept Orange Carter Navel $ July/Augut Decription Satuma generally have the greatet cold tolerance and alo fruit the earliet of the citru. They probably originated in Japan. time may vary with local ite condition, and are approximate only. An old favorite, extremely popular becaue it tate o good. Eay peel, virtually eedle, weet juicy fruit. For the bet flavour leave on the tree for about a week after the kin ha turned completely orange. Heavy crop of quite large, rounded flat haped fruit. The fleh i v. juicy, eedle, weet and mildly flavoured. High ugar level. Eay-peel, cold-hardy. Slower-growing. Begin cropping a a young tree. m. Very imilar to Miyagawa but may fruit earlier or later depending on location. More vigorou growing. Seedle, weet, medium ized eay peel Satuma. A Satuma train variety fruiting very eaily. Quite large typically 'flattened' fruit with mooth thin looe rind, eay peeling with no pip. Sweet tangy flavour. Low growing with preading branche. Early. m Large, thick kinned, eay peel, weet and juicy. Segment eparate eaily. Very heavy crop. Store well when picked, but fruit doe not hold well on tree. One of earliet mandarin to ripen. The fruit i low in acid and therefore really weet and juicy. m A good quality NZ navel orange with excellent flavoured, weet and juicy, eedle fruit. Eay peel. Good vigorou upright habit. 2m. A unique thick kinned low acid navel orange with eedle fruit. It ha deep pink, extremely flavorful, weet and juicy fleh. 2m. Sweet and juicy eedle variety of excellent flavour. Remain juicy for 2-3 month if left on tree. Doe well on GBI.

6 Tangelo C. x tangelo Orange Harwood Late $ $ Nov-March Orange Seville C. aurantium Orange Wahington Navel $ $ July/Septemb er $ July-late Oct Tangelo Seminole $ $ October on Tangor Tangor Ugli $ $ Sept/Oct warm and heltered Ornamental Kumquat Fortunella japonica Decription NZ election of Valencia orange with high yield of juicy, thin-kinned fruit with excellent flavour. Larger grower. Prolific crop of medium to large highly coloured bitter orange, ideal for marmalade, liqueur, preerve, auce and relihe. The dried peel i often ued for eaoning. Upright, vigorou thorny growth habit with dene green leave. Approx 2m. The # commercial navel orange variety. Thick-kinned, large, eedle fruit ha weet and juicy fleh. Excellent for freh eating. The mature fruit hold well on the tree for everal month until Harwood Late i ready. With the two varietie you can pick weet, juicy orange almot all year. 2m. I a cro between a pummelo (imilar to a grapefruit) and a mandarin. The tangelo i renowned for it fine grained, juicy, weet rich flavour. It i a wonderful deert fruit and upreme for juicing. The fruiting eaon extend though pring and into ummer. The tree i upright and compact in habit. The fruit i round and flat and coloured a oft reddih orange when ripe. The kin i thin but not eay peel. While the fleh i weet it ha a tang and i very juicy. Unbeble for juice at breakfat. A large growing tree with atin white very fragrant flower. Fruit hold on tree for week on end. 2m A hybrid beweeen a mandarin and weet orange Very large, thick coare kinned, eay peel fruit wiht deep orange fleh and ditictive flavour. Vigorou rounded upright tree. 2m

7 62 63 kumquat calomondin $ May-June v cold hardy Decription A cro between a Kumquat and a our orange. Produce large crop of mall round orange coloured, our fruit. Excellent for marmalade. The buh i motly thornle. Dwarf growing. kumquat Nagami $ March-April v hardy Oval picy weet fruit excellent for maramalade, preerve and candied fruit. Small howy hrub.