| Availablility Janary 1, 2013 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Variety | Semi Dwarf | Standard | Espalier | ||||||||||||||
| #05 | #07 | #15 | 24″ | 36″ | | | #05 | #07 | #15 | 24″ | 36″ | 48″ | 60″ | | | #07 | #15 | 24″ | |
| Grapefruit Cocktail Hybrid | x | x | – | – | – | | | x | – | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | x | – |
| Grapefruit Marsh | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – |
| Grapefruit Oro Blanco | x | x | x | x | – | | | x | x | x | x | x | x | – | | | – | – | – |
| Grapefruit Rio Red | x | x | x | x | – | | | x | x | x | – | – | – | – | | | x | – | – |
| Grapefruit Star Ruby | x | x | x | – | – | | | x | x | x | – | – | – | – | | | x | – | – |
| Kumquat Meiwa | x | – | – | – | – | | | x | – | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – |
| Kumquat Nagami | x | x | x | x | – | | | x | x | x | x | x | – | – | | | x | x | – |
| Kumquat Nordmann | – | x | – | – | – | | | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – |
| Lemon Eureka | x | x | x | x | x | | | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | | | x | x | x |
| Lemon Meyer (Improved) | x | x | x | – | x | | | x | x | x | x | x | – | – | | | x | – | – |
| Lemon Pink Lemonade | x | x | – | – | – | | | x | x | x | – | – | – | – | | | x | – | – |
| Lemon Pomona Sweet | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – |
| Lime Bearss Seedless (Tahiti) | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | x |
| Lime Kaffir | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – |
| Lime Mexican (Key) | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | x | x |
| Lime Mexican Thornless | x | x | x | x | – | | | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | | | – | – | – |
| Lime Sweet (Palestine) | x | x | x | – | – | | | x | x | x | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – |
| Mandarin Algerian/ Clementine | x | x | x | – | – | | | x | – | x | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – |
| Mandarin Dancy | x | x | x | x | – | | | x | x | x | x | x | x | – | | | x | x | – |
| Mandarin Gold Nugget | x | x | x | x | – | | | x | x | x | x | | | x | – | – | |||
| Mandarin Honey | x | x | x | x | – | | | x | x | – | x | x | x | – | | | x | x | x |
| Mandarin Kishu Mini | x | x | x | x | – | | | x | x | x | x | – | – | – | | | – | x | – |
| Mandarin Page | x | x | x | x | – | | | x | x | x | x | x | x | – | | | x | x | – |
| Mandarin Pixie Tangerine | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – |
| Mandarin Satsuma (Owari) | x | x | x | x | – | | | x | x | x | x | x | – | – | | | x | – | – |
| Mandarin Tango | x | x | x | x | – | | | x | x | – | x | – | – | – | | | – | – | – |
| Mandarin Yosemite Gold | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – | x | x | – | – | | | x | x | x |
| Orange Cara Cara Navel (pink) | x | x | x | x | – | | | x | – | x | x | – | – | – | | | – | – | x |
| Orange Fukumoto Navel | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – |
| Orange Lane Late Navel | x | – | x | – | – | | | x | x | x | x | x | – | – | | | – | – | x |
| Orange Moro Blood | x | x | x | x | – | | | x | x | x | x | x | x | – | | | – | – | – |
| Orange Sanquinelli Blood | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – |
| Orange Tarocco Blood | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – |
| Orange Valencia | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | | x | x | x |
| Orange Valencia Midnight | x | x | x | x | – | | | x | x | x | x | x | x | – | | | – | – | – |
| Orange Valencia Red | – | x | x | – | – | | | – | – | x | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – |
| Orange Washington Navel | x | x | x | x | – | | | x | x | x | x | x | x | – | | | x | x | x |
| Pummelo Chandler | x | x | – | – | – | | | x | – | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | x |
| Pummelo Valentine | – | x | – | – | – | | | – | – | x | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – |
| Tangelo Minneola | x | x | x | x | – | | | x | x | x | x | x | x | – | | | x | x | x |
| Specialty Calamondin | x | – | – | – | – | | | x | – | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – |
| Specialty Calamondin Variegated | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – |
| Specialty Citron – Fingered “Buddha’s Hand” | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – |
| Specialty Citrus Hystrix (Kaffir Lime) | x | – | – | – | – | | | x | – | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | – |
| Specialty Yuzu | x | x | x | x | – | | | x | x | x | x | x | x | – | | | – | – | – |
| Specialty Salad Citrus 4-5 in 1 | – | – | – | – | – | | | – | – | x | x | – | – | – | | | – | – | – |
Moringa oleifera Tree Provides Low-Cost Water Purification Method For Developing World
March 3, 2010
A low-cost water purification technique published in Current Protocols in Microbiology could help drastically reduce the incidence of waterborne disease in the developing world. The procedure, which uses seeds from the Moringa oleifera tree, can produce a 90.00% to 99.99% bacterial reduction in previously untreated water, and has been made free to download as part of access programs under John Wiley & Sons’ Corporate Citizenship Initiative.
A billion people across Asia, Africa, and Latin America are estimated to rely on untreated surface water sources for their daily water needs. Of these, some two million are thought to die from diseases caught from contaminated water every year, with the majority of these deaths occurring among children under five years of age. Michael Lea, a Current Protocols author and a researcher at Clearinghouse, a Canadian organisation dedicated to investigating and implementing low-cost water purification technologies, believes the Moringa oleifera tree could go a long way to providing a solution.
“Moringa oleifera is a vegetable tree which is grown in Africa, Central and South America, the Indian subcontinent, and South East Asia. It could be considered to be one of the world’s most useful trees,” said Lea. “Not only is it drought resistant, it also yields cooking and lighting oil, soil fertilizer, as well as highly nutritious food in the form of its pods, leaves, seeds and flowers. Perhaps most importantly, its seeds can be used to purify drinking water at virtually no cost.”
Moringa tree seeds, when crushed into powder, can be used as a water-soluble extract in suspension, resulting in an effective natural clarification agent for highly turbid and untreated pathogenic surface water. As well as improving drinkability, this technique reduces water turbidity (cloudiness) making the result aesthetically as well as microbiologically more acceptable for human consumption.
Despite its live-saving potential, the technique is still not widely known, even in areas where the Moringa is routinely cultivated. It is therefore Lea’s hope that the publication of this technique in a freely available protocol format, a first, will make it easier to disseminate the procedure to the communities that need it.
“This technique does not represent a total solution to the threat of waterborne disease,” concluded Lea. “However, given that the cultivation and use of the Moringa tree can bring benefits in the shape of nutrition and income as well as of far purer water, there is the possibility that thousands of 21st century families could find themselves liberated from what should now be universally seen as19th century causes of death and disease. This is an amazing prospect, and one in which a huge amount of human potential could be released. This is particularly mind-boggling when you think it might all come down to one incredibly useful tree.”
SOURCE: Wiley-Blackwell
Grape Vines Can Be Used in the Landscape
Grape vines can be used in many interesting ways. We most often see them in images from wine growing areas and have them at home growing up a lattice or chain link fence. But what if you use them not only for food, but to produce a cool shade or as a fast growing screen on a fence?
Although very fast growing in season, with little effort, the vines can be kept under control and can be used very nicely as an informal hedge-with some support, or to provide summer shade on an arbor or pergola. To produce the best fruit and to help reduce mildew, it is best to grow the plants in full sun.
Here is a vine grown for wine production.
This is the structure of the vine when it is deciduous, or has lost its foliage in the winter.
An older vine supported on a wire can add interesting branching structure, try this at home.
Here are example of grapes grown on an overhead wire structure and pergola.
This European city uses much of its unused area as green space. Young grape vines grow in the median.
