Photo Gallery: California citrus variety photos

Dec. 14, 2011 5:08pm

Beth Grafton-Cardwell, director of the Lindcove the UC Lindcove Research and Extension Center.
Alex Del Rio with Leffingwell Ag Sales samples citrus.
Tom Delfino, executive director of the California Citrus Nursery Society.
Scores of varieties of citrus are on display during a tasting in Exeter.
Mary Lu Arpaia, a UC Cooperative Extension specialist, helps conduct a taste test funded by the Citrus Research Board.
David Obenland, plant pathologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, helps conduct a taste test funded by the Citrus Research Board.
Mikeal Roose, professor of genetics at the University of California at Riverside.
The sudachi papeda grows in clusters.
Tim Williams, a staff research associate in the Citrus Breeding, Genetics and Germplasm program at UC Riverside, and Tracy Kahn, principal museum scientist with the Citrus Variety Collection at UC Riverside.
Tracy Kahn, principal museum scientist with the Citrus Variety Collection at UC Riverside, slices fruit for tasting at the UC Lindcove Research and Extension Center.

Among the nearly 160 varieties of citrus recently available for tasting at the UC Lindcove Research and Extension Center, none appeared ready to upstage the seedless Tango mandarin.