Grapefruit | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Grapefruit, hybrid citrus. | |
Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Plantae |
(unranked): | Angiosperms |
(unranked): | Eudicots |
(unranked): | Rosids |
Order: | Sapindales |
Faimily: | Rutaceae |
Genus: | Citrus |
Species: | C. × paradisi |
Binomial name | |
Citrus × paradisi Macfad.
|
The grapefruit (Citrus × paradisi) is a subtropical citrus tree kent for its sour tae semi-sweet fruit, an 18t-century hybrid first bred in Barbados.[1] Whan foond, it wis named the "forbidden fruit";[2] an it haes an aa been misidentified wi the pomelo or shaddock (C. maxima), ane o the parents o this hybrid, the ither bein sweet orange (C. × sinensis).[3]
These evergreen trees uisually grow tae aroond 5–6 meter (16–20 ft) in hicht, tho thay can reak 13–15 metre (43–49 ft)*. The leafs is mirk green, lang (up tae 150 mm, 6 inch) an thin. It produces 5 cm (2 in) white fower-petaled flouers. The fruit is yellae-orange skinned an lairgely an oblate spheroid; it ranges in diameter frae 10–15 cm. The flesh is dividit in liths an is shilp, varyin in colour dependin on the cultivars, whilk include white, pink an reid pulps o varyin sweetness (generally, the reider varieties is sweeter). The 1929 US Ruby Red (o the Redblush variety) haes the first grapefruit patent.[4]