White grapefruit (Exp.) EO Organic
Origin: Mexico

• Details and product description

  Introduction:

  In France, the pomelo is incorrectly called pamplemousse. Here are the differences: 1) Grapefruit Citrus grandis : The tree reaches 7 meters high and sometimes can be taller than 10 m. The leaves are large, oval, with leafstalk fully winged and pubescent. The flowers, with a form similar to these of the orange tree are white and odorous, and with an upper size more than 3 cm. Generally, the fruit is spherical, covered with a thick and light-yellow peel, scattered with tiny vesicles containing essential oil. Some fruits can reach from 6 to 8 times the volume of an orange. They have a rough pulp, a well-marked placental space and monoembryonic pips. 2) Pomelo Citrus paradisii : It is satellite species of Citrus grandis, which could be derived from a bud's mutation or hybridisation. It is different from grapefruit by characteristics, easy to rocognize leaf with leafstalk, more strictly winged and hairless. Fruits produced in bunches, with smaller size and finer peel. Soft and juicy pulp. Polyembryonnic pips. There are several different varieties of pomelos with yellow, pink or red flesh, and with a sweet or acidulous flavour. In 1913 a spontaneous pink fruit arose from grafting, and in Texas in 1929, a new mutation for pink and seedless was saved as the cultivar Runby. 

  History:

  The grapefruit was imported to India at a very ancient date. Here, its growing modified the fruit, which was originally inedible, into various varieties with red pulp, white, acid or sweet, insipid or perfumed, with sweet or bitter peel. From India, the grapefruit became widespread in America, introduced in the 18 th century by a captain called Shaddock, whose name still refers today to the grapefruit in the English language. Its French name, "pamplemousse" comes from the Dutch "pompelmoes" from "pompel" which means thick, big and from "limoes" which refers to the lemon. A Frenchman, Le Carpentier, called it this name in 1665. In the XVIIth century a Jesuit from Sienna, J-B Ferrari, made the first description of the grapefruit and he named it under the term of " Aurantium maximum ". Among the fruits, it is like the elephant among the animals, considering its dimensions, thick peel and the proportions of the flowers that precede the fruits. It is often mistaken with pomelo ( Citrus paradisi ) which is not native to Asia, but was discovered in Bahamas in the XVIIIth century by a Frenchman, the Count Philippi, who originated the plantations in Florida. The first production of essential oil in Florida dates from 1933.

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