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11. There are a couple of trees in my parents' orange grove

that send up suckers from the roots of the original rootstock. If not cut out, those rootstock branches sometimes produce fruit, which is bitter, like a Seville Orange. My mother has made marmalade from that fruit a couple of times. There's also a bitter lemon fruit that comes up from another tree as root stalk suckers. Oddly, it makes very good lemonade when diluted and with enough sugar. the bitter lemon has a very thick rind and is about the size of a Valencia orange, the orange variety that is used for most orange juice. The bitter lemon rootstock is also used for grafting purposes.

Of course, there is a constant effort to remove such rootstock sucker branches.

They also grow avocados, and there is a wonderful tree in the orchard that is completely based on the orginal rootstalk. The avocados it produces are twice as large as the Haas variety grown for sale, and has a long neck. It's delicious, but has zero market value, since nobody wants an odd-looking avocado. It's my parents' Guacamole avocado tree.