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Category for fruit species native to Japan and fruit cultivars originating in Japan. Also including edible nuts. Subcategories.
Hyuganatsu (Citrus tamurana, Japanese: 日向夏) is a citrus fruit and plant grown in Japan. The name comes from Hyūga, the ancient name of Miyazaki Prefecture in Kyushu, where the citrus is said to have originated, while "natsu" (夏) means summer.
Citrus fruits are believed to have originated in Assam, India and the foothills of the Himalayas, and later spread throughout the world.In October 2023, published genetic research proved that the ancestor of the citrus plants originated in India more than 25 million years ago and evolved into the true citrus species in southern China 8 million years ago, followed by early citrus species such ...
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 iyokan (伊予柑 - Citrus × iyo), also known as anadomikan (穴門みかん) and Gokaku no Iyokan, [1] is a Japanese citrus fruit, similar in appearance to a mandarin orange, with Dancy as the pollen parent and Kaikokan as the seed parent. [2] It is the second most widely produced citrus fruit in Japan after the satsuma mandarin (Citrus ...
Hyuganatsu (Citrus tamurana, Japanese: 日向夏) is a citrus fruit and plant grown in Japan. The name comes from Hyūga, the ancient name of Miyazaki Prefecture in Kyushu, where the citrus is said to have originated, while "natsu" (夏) means summer.
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Citrus unshiu is a semi-seedless and easy-peeling citrus species, also known as the satsuma mandarin or Japanese mandarin. [1] During the Edo period of Japan, kishu mikans were more popular because there was a popular superstition that eating Citrus unshiu without seeds made people prone to infertility.