14 The flesh of the fruit can vary in sweetness, juiciness as well as colour, ranging from white, light yellow and pink hues. 13 Each fruit comprises nine to 14 segments that are covered with paper-thin skin. 12 The fruit is round to pear-shaped, with white thick spongy pith that encloses the edible portion of the fruit.
POMELLO TREE SKIN
11 Its rough skin can range from a light green to yellow and is also dotted with oil glands. 10 The pomelo fruit is the largest of all citrus fruits, measuring 10 to 30 cm in diameter. The flowers are white, fragrant and grow solitarily to about 2.5 cm wide. Oil glands on the dark green leaves – seen as small dots – give them a shiny appearance. 9 The thorny tree has many branches and fruits all year round. The pomelo tree has low spreading branches that grow to around five to 15 m in height. In Southeast Asia, the pomelo is grown as a crop in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia. A peculiar variety found in the Dutch East Indies called the limau wangkang in Malay, comprises a small fruit enclosed within a larger fruit. In 1884, a variety of pomelo, limau bali, was imported into Malaya from Indonesia by Sir Hugh Low and cultivated in Penang and Perak. 6 Different species of the pomelo, either bred through selection and propagation or found as natural hybrids, have been cultivated in Southeast Asia. The pomelo is likely to have originated from the Malesian region (a bio-geographical are stretching from Malaysia through Indonesia to Papua New Guinea). 4 The popular fruit is used in many Chinese festive celebrations throughout Southeast Asia. 3 In Southeast Asia, it is commonly known as limau besar, limau betawi, or limau serdadu in Malay jeruk bali in Bahasa Indonesia sam-o in Thai lukban in Tagalog and bu’o’i in Vietnamese. 2 The word “pomelo” may have come from a word of unknown origin “pampelmoose”, or from the Dutch pompelmoes, meaning grapefruit. 1 It is also known as shaddock, so-named after a Captain Shaddock who was said to have brought seeds of the fruit from the Malay Archipelago to the West Indies on an East India Company ship in the 17th century. The pomelo ( Citrus maxima or Citrus grandis) is the largest citrus fruit from the Rutaceae family.
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