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The pomelo (/ ˈ p ɒ m ɪ l oʊ, ˈ p ʌ m-/ POM-il-oh, PUM-; [2] [3] Citrus maxima), also known as a shaddock, is the largest citrus fruit. It is an ancestor of several cultivated citrus species, including the bitter orange and the grapefruit .
Banpeiyu (Japanese: 晩白柚) is a cultivar of pomelo which produces extremely large fruits. [1] A banpeiyu fruit became the world's heaviest pomelo when it was presented by Seiji Sonoda from Japan for the Guinness World Record at the Banpeiyu Competition in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto, Japan on December 25, 2014. This specimen weighed 4.8597 kg (10 ...
The pomelo was the female ancestor; the sweet orange, itself a hybrid, was the male. [29] Both C. sinensis and C. maxima were present in the West Indies by 1692. One story of the fruit's origin is that a 17th-century trader named 'Captain Shaddock' [1] [31] brought pomelo seeds to Jamaica and bred the first fruit, which were then called ...
Like someone had taken a grapefruit and inflated it until it was about the size of a volleyball. Pomelos are actually one of the oldest citrus fruits. What is a Pomelo Fruit?
Ponkan (Citrus poonensis; "Chinese Honey Orange") is a high-yield sweet Citrus cultivar with large fruits in the size of an orange. It is a citrus hybrid (mandarin × pomelo), though it was once thought to be a pure mandarin. Taiwan tangerine Flat lemon Hirami lemon Thin-skinned flat lemon Citrus × depressa: Tangelo Honeybell
Fruits with many segments, such as the grapefruit or pomelo, have more vesicles per segment than fruits with fewer segments, such as the kumquat and mandarin. [1] Each vesicle in a segment in citrus fruits has approximately the same shape, size, and weight. [2] About 5% of the weight of an average orange is made up of the membranes of the juice ...
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]
Citrus fruits are diverse in size and shape, as well as in color and flavor, reflecting their biochemistry; [31] [32] for instance, grapefruit is made bitter-tasting by a flavanone, naringin. [30] Citrus fruits are diverse in size, shape, color, and flavor.