Citrus US-1516 (USDA Hardy Rootstock) 26/5 Restock the plant found a willing

the plant found a willing home in American gardens centuries ago

forms a stemless or short-stemmed rosette

The genus Phoebe gathers more than fifty species of evergreen trees and shrubs across subtropical and tropical Asia

a patio tree

The name carries a curl of history: Colquhoun is a Scottish Highland clan

Citrus US-1516 (USDA Hardy Rootstock) 26/5 Restock the plant found a willingEvery grafted citrus tree is two plants pretending to be one: a familiar fruiting top, and a rootstock below the graft union doing the unglamorous work of roots, vigor, and disease resistance. US 1516 is one of the latter, and a good story all the same. The cross was made by the USDA in 1975, a pairing of opposites: African pummelo, the giant of the genus, crossed with Flying Dragon, the contorted, fiercely thorned, cold hardy form of trifoliate