Reference specimenAccession  '71920212

x Citrofortunella 'Augusta'

At a glance
Hardiness
USDA Zones 8–
Mature size
Height 8– in
A plant Woodlanders once offered on our catalogue

This variety is no actively in production in our propagation house and may not return to our catalogue. We maintain this page purely for reference and archival purposes. If you would like to grow this plant, tell us. Your interest helps guide what we bring back.

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We'd hoped this Citrangequat might be the original 'Telfair' variety. With its egg size and shaped fruit it was in Joe Levert's outstanding hardy citrus collection in Augusta, Georgia. Our friend and hardy citrus guru Tom McClendon told us that 'Telfair' may well be extinct and advised as follows: "I collected that citrangequat at the Florida USDA citrus arboretum in 2000. It was a newer hybrid developed for rootstock potential and assigned only a number, not a name. I collected it because I reasoned it would be hardy and because it had beautiful fruit. When it started fruiting at Aquinas, I proposed calling it ‘Augusta’ to honor the tradition of naming citrus hybrids after the location where they first fruited (away from the USDA).