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With more than 2,500 types of citrus worldwide, it would be a shame to limit your larder to lemons and limes. Luckily, many grocers also stock seasonal stunners like Sumo mandarins, yuzu, and pomelos.
Pomelos are not the same as grapefruits, consider them kissing cousins to the smaller, tarter fruit. "A lot of the citrus fruits we eat in modern times are hybrids of older varieties," explains ...
The fruit is large, 15–25 cm (6–10 in) in diameter, [5] usually weighing 1–2 kilograms (2–4 pounds). It has a thicker rind than a grapefruit, and is divided into 11 to 18 segments. The flesh tastes like mild grapefruit, with a little of its common bitterness (the grapefruit is a hybrid of the pomelo and the orange).
A sweet seedless citrus hybrid fruit (grapefruit × pomelo). Oroblanco was developed as a cross between a diploid acidless pomelo and a seedy white tetraploid grapefruit, resulting in a triploid seedless fruit that is less acidic and less bitter than the grapefruit. Ponkan: Citrus poonensis
The grapefruit, like many cultivated Citrus species, is a hybrid, in its case of the sweet orange and pomelo. [29] Grapefruit originated as a natural hybrid. [30] One ancestor of the grapefruit was the Jamaican sweet orange (Citrus sinensis), itself an ancient hybrid of Asian origin; the other was the Indonesian pomelo (C. maxima). [1]
Sweet, tangy grapefruit is the youngest sibling in the citrus family. Did you know it’s a cross between a pomelo and a sweet orange? While people have been cultivating lemons, limes and oranges ...
The oroblanco is a triploid citrus hybrid, resulting from a cross between an acidless pomelo (C. grandis Osbeck) [1] and the Marsh grapefruit [2] (C. paradisi Macf.). [1] Its fruit is seedless with pale yellow flesh [3] [4] and is slightly less juicy than other grapefruits, [2] [5] though it does have a juice content of roughly thirty percent. [6]
In 1958, CRC 2240 (pomelo) Robert K. Soost and James W. Cameron crossed with a seedy, white, tetraploid grapefruit. Two of the triploid offspring had particularly favorable characteristics. One was released in 1980 as 'Oroblanco'. The second was released as Melogold. Oroblanco was more similar to grapefruit, while Melogold was more similar to ...