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The tangelo (/ ˈtændʒəloʊ / TAN-jə-loh, / tænˈdʒɛloʊ / tan-JEL-oh; C. reticulata × C. maxima or × C. paradisi), Citrus × tangelo, is a citrus fruit hybrid of a Citrus reticulata variety, such as mandarin orange or tangerine, and a Citrus maxima variety, such as a pomelo or grapefruit. The name is a portmanteau of 'tangerine' and ...
The Jamaican tangelo, also known by proprietary names ugli / ˈʌɡli / fruit, uglifruit, and uniq fruit, is a citrus fruit that arose on the island of Jamaica through the natural hybridization of a tangerine or orange with a grapefruit (or pomelo), and is thus a tangelo. [1] The original tree is believed to have been a hybrid formed from ...
A ripe Murcott fruit. The Murcott (marketed as Honey Tangerine) is a tangor, or mandarin – sweet orange hybrid. [1][2][3] The Murcott arose out of citrus pioneer Walter Tennyson Swingle 's attempts to produce novel citrus hybrids. Its seed parent has been identified as the King tangelo; the pollen parent remains to be identified. [4]
The pomelo (/ ˈpɒmɪloʊ, ˈpʌm -/ POM-il-oh, PUM-; [2][3] Citrus maxima), also known as a shaddock and from the family Rutaceae, is the largest citrus fruit, and the principal ancestor of the grapefruit. [4] It is a natural, non-hybrid, citrus fruit, native to Southeast Asia. [4] Similar in taste to a sweet grapefruit, the pomelo is ...
Allspice, also known as Jamaica pepper, myrtle pepper, pimenta, or pimento, [a] is the dried unripe berry of Pimenta dioica, a midcanopy tree native to the Greater Antilles, southern Mexico, and Central America, now cultivated in many warm parts of the world. [3] The name allspice was coined as early as 1621 by the English, who valued it as a ...
Japanese citrus. The Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, compiled in the 700s, were the first books in Japan to describe citrus fruits. The Nihon Shoki states that a man named Tajimamori brought back citrus fruits from the Tokoyo no kuni (常世の国, Land of immortality) on the orders of Emperor Suinin, which is thought to refer to the tachibana orange ...
Mandarin oranges in a mesh bag Mandarin orange seeds. Mandarin orange fruits are small 40–80 millimetres (1.6–3.1 in). [1] Their color is orange, yellow-orange, or red-orange. [3] The skin is thin and peels off easily. [1] Their easiness to peel is an important advantage of mandarin oranges over other citrus fruits. [3]
Grapefruit is a citrus hybrid that originated in Barbados in the 18th century. It is an accidental cross between the sweet orange (C. × sinensis) and the pomelo or shaddock (C. maxima), both of which were introduced from Asia in the 17th century. [2] It has also been called the forbidden fruit. [1]
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