Although I've never been a grapefruit person, I've evolved to embrace this particular fruit along with
other citrus varieties.
Ed Stover, Sharon Inch, Matthew Richardson and David Hall from the USDA Agricultural Research Service said that, although there are no commercial
citrus varieties with strong HLB resistance, some field tolerance has been seen in trees that were exposed to the disease after they reached maturity.
Embracing my status as a blasphemously tradition - disregarding ex-pat who's not in Seville, I figured I would take advantage of the abundant
winter citrus varieties and use clementines and blood orange instead, adding lemon to mimic the sharpness of Seville Oranges.
Plant breeders who are trying to
find citrus varieties that are resistant to the disease have been infecting trees in experiments to determine which ones might be likely candidates, and this research has led to a useful discovery.
The second array's focal point,
boutique citrus varieties, are for humans, but the evenhanded treatment of objects throughout the installation has an equalizing effect on its human and non-human constituencies a like.
i am such a fan of olive oil cakes, especially of
the citrus variety.
I always look forward to this time of year to get all
the citrus varieties showing up in the markets!
Rose and jasmine may be the rock stars, but there are other exquisite options like carnation, roman chamomile (smells like apple), champaca, frangipani (plumeria), rose geranium, ginger lily, lavender, linden blossom, petitgrain (distilled leaves / twigs of
a citrus variety), tuberose, and ylang - ylang.
Here endless rows of grape vines, orange groves,
citrus varieties, olives and prime vegetables luxuriate over the long sunlit days.