Fruit : Pomelo

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Thursday 31 July, 2014 by Uncle Spike

These large ‘pink grapefruit’ are called Pomelo, or Citrus maxima (or Citrus Grandis) to use their posh name. Ours are now fist sized, so still small, but should be fully grown and ripe around December-January.

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They are a semi-bitter fruit, which is juicy, but easy to eat as the juice says within the cells of the fruit, so a good one to dissect and chomp sat around after dinner.

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They grow to about 15-20 cm in diameter, like a small football. My mother-in-law calls them ‘Pamelas’… after a certain similarity to a certain actresses’ well-known attributes.

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