Fruit : Pomelo
16Thursday 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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[…] from late November to late January. For us, that primarily means clementines, but we also have pomelo, lovely large Washington oranges, small juicing oranges, winter lemons, wild oranges, […]
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You didn’t show the pink/yellowish small tear drop fruits inside the white rind. 🙂
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Next year…. all eaten this season
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if they get bigger (and they will), you can play soccer in the garden 😀
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We did this year….! Left one in the store cupboard and forgot about it. Six months later is was a leathery small football that you could kick the hell outta 😀
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ROTFL!! it lasted six months without being turned into mush? Amazing! 😀
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Yeah it just dried on the outside, never rotted at all 🙂
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Hee, hee. I guess that cherry tomatoes should be called ‘Sarahs’ then!
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ROFL and LMFAO would seem appropriate in the circumstances 😀
Quality not quantity counts though.
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wow you have lots of fruit. Hope you seen a post I did for you about the sugar pear tree
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Been away for 5 days and having trouble ‘catching up’ (posts scheduled in advance)
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They have really sweet smelling flowers too, dont they?
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Never sniffed one – put on my list for next springtime… 🙂
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Good one….
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We have lots of ‘Pamelas’ here too 🙂
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.D
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