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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.
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.
Grapefruit relatives and other varieties of pomelo have variable amounts of furanocoumarin. [ 11 ] [ 2 ] [ 36 ] [ 37 ] The Dancy cultivar has a small amount of pomelo ancestry, [ 34 ] but is genetically close to a non-hybrid true mandarin (unlike most commercial mandarins, which may have much more extensive hybridization).
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 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]
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?
The mandelo was developed in the 1950s at the UC Citrus Experiment Station, but then escaped into public orchards. [1] [3] It is a yellow-orange fleshed tri-specific citrus hybrid between a 'Frua' hybrid mandarin ('Dancy' mandarin × 'King tangor') [4] and a Siamese Sweet pomelo. [3]
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]