Reikou

Citrus fruit and plant

Reikou (麗紅, reikō) is a cultivar of tangor.^[1] It is a citrus hybrid of a hybrid of Kiyomi and Encore (Kiyomi–Encore No. 5) and Murcott tangor.^[1]^[2]

Description

The fruit can be easily peeled by hand.^[3] It has a sugar content of between 12% and 13%, with some fruits reaching 15%.^[3] The fruit weighs around 210 grams (7.4 oz), relatively large for a tangor, and is a reddish-orange colour.^[1] It fruits in late January.^[1] It does not produce pollen, so it must be pollinated by another species of citrus.^[1]

Its systematic name is Kankitsu Kuchinotsu 32 Gō (カンキツ口之津32号)^{[clarification needed]} after Kuchinotsu, Nagasaki where it was bred.^[1] It was hybridized in 1984, with its name registered in 2004 and the variety registered in 2005.^[1] The first fruits came on sale in 2007.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "Reikou" (in Japanese). National Agriculture and Food Research Organization. Archived from the original on January 23, 2013. Retrieved April 18, 2012.
^ YOSHIOKA, Terutaka; et al. (2009). "New Citrus Cultivar 'Reikou'" (PDF). Bulletin of the National Institute of Fruit Tree Science (in Japanese). 8: 15–23. ISSN 1347-3549.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Reikō" (in Japanese). fruit-sommelier.com. Retrieved 18 April 2012.

External links

Keisuke Nonaka; Masayuki Kita; Yoshinori Ikoma; Hiroshi Fukamachi; Atsushi Imai; Terutaka Yoshioka; Masahiko Yamada (2012). "Genetic Differences and Environmental Variations in Carotenoid Contents of Fruit Flesh in Parental Population Used in Citrus Breeding in Japan". J. Am. Soc. Hort. Sci. 137 (4): 243–9. doi:10.21273/JASHS.137.4.243.

Citrus

True species