Smith Red Valencia

Smith Red Valencia is a pigmented sport of a conventional Valencia orange tree. The rind frequently carries a heavy red blush and the flesh is heavily pigmented by anthocyanin. The fruit shape is somewhat variable at present, globose to ovoid with a depressed base, possibly due to the juvenility of the subject trees. Although the fruit is mature in late winter, it holds well on the tree into late spring, well past the season for conventional blood oranges.

Although red inside, it is a valencia and not a blood orange. Researchers latched onto it in 1988 when a paranoid lady in Ventura insisted that her neighbor was trying to poison her through her tree. Allegedly the lady's last name is (or was)Smith. Her first name never was tracked down.

External links

* http://www.citrusvariety.ucr.edu/citrus/sweet_oranges.html#Smith