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Bloomsweet Grapefruit

Bloomsweet Grapefruit

Kinkoji
OfficialPummelo (unknown cultivar) x Kunenbo Mandarin
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Notes

Large fruit, yellow-orange; globose, stem end rounded and slightly depressed, stylar end flat; rind 5-6 mm thick; core average, slightly hollow; 10-15 seeds, highly polyembryonic; flesh juicy, raggy but tender, taste pleasant, slightly acid, low solids, not bitter; leaves elongated, tips acute, petiole long, average wings. Not commercial variety but excellent quick decline indicator for seedling yellows. Notes from W.P. Bitters' trip to Japan, 1963: Lg fruit, ht 8.4 cm, wid 8.4 cm, yellow orange color, globose shape, stem end rounded, sl depressed, stylar and flat. Rind 5-6 mm thick, core av., sl hollow, 10-15 seeds, highly polyembryonic, flesh juicy, sl raggy but tender, taste pleasant, sl acid, low solids, not bitter. Lvs elongated, tips acute, petiole long, av. wings. Not a commercial variety but an excellent quick decline indicator for seedling yellows. This accession was heat treated about 1975 for moving out of the tristeza quarantine area to Lindcove.

Origin

Japan

Submitted by

Brady Mitchell@cascadiaadmin
Colwood, British Columbia, Canada
Submitted on: January 10, 2026

Last Edited by

Brady Mitchell@cascadiaadmin
Last edited on: January 10, 2026