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Lyon collected this turtlehead somewhere in the mountains around 1812 without recording quite where
which is part of why grandiflorum has persisted along Coastal Plain roadsides where the native communities have largely disappeared
it prefers steady moisture but shows good drought tolerance once established
and a trellis or a strong-shouldered neighbor to climb
The cultivar name
Citrus reticulata 'Changsha' 26/4 Restock Lyon collected this turtlehead somewhereA very old Chinese cultivar, almost certainly named for the capital of Hunan province where the fruit has been grown for centuries, and quite possibly carrying C. ichangensis somewhere in the parentage. That suspected ancestry would account for the cold tolerance that has made Changsha the parent stock for nearly every modern hardy citrus breeding program of consequence: Wayne Hanna's seedless work at UGA Tifton, the Arctic Frost satsuma cross out of
