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World of CitrusWorld of CitrusTahitian Pummelo
University of California, Riverside — Citrus Variety Collection
https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc3806 (opens in a new tab)
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Citrus Genome Database
https://www.citrusgenomedb.org/Analysis/2294125 (opens in a new tab)
Genome resource reviewed against the CGD assembly record and existing variety identity. Cupi Majiayou is a sequenced Citrus maxima cultivar, distinct from Tahitian Pummelo. This is a pummelo species reference for comparison; its fruit chemistry and other traits should not be assigned to this cultivar.
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Thomas Osborne, MD · TastyLandscape · 2013-07-22
Personal report by Thomas Osborne, MD about his own Tahitian pummelo tree in coastal-influenced Southern California. The article describes fruit appearance, ease of peeling, flesh, seeds, and flavor. The author reports about five large fruits dropping from the young tree in April–June that year; he says the Florida November–February season is something he read elsewhere, not an observation from his tree. Taste was not measured on a numeric scale.
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Citrus ID (IDtools)
https://idtools.org/citrus_id/index.cfm?packageID=1179&entityID=8854 (opens in a new tab)
Citrus ID entry with morphology and synonym sections; full page retrieved. It lists Moanalua and Monalua as synonyms citing Cottin (2002) and attributes the Tahiti-from-Borneo/Hawaii origin account to Hodgson (1967). Fruit-shape, rind, and taste descriptors are entry-level descriptions; the additional thin-rind, juiciness, seed, and flesh-color remarks are expressly reproduced Hodgson text. This is a secondary identification entry, not an accession comparison.
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Splinteredsilk · Reddit · r/Citrus
Show & Tell post by Splinteredsilk identifying the pictured fruit as Tahitian Pomelo and saying it was seedless. The page rendered only a relative “5mo ago” age, so the exact posting date is not established. The claim concerns the pictured fruit, not cultivar-wide seedlessness; no measurements or taste description are provided in the post body. The page extraction also includes neighboring comments about Cocktail grapefruit; those are not Tahitian observations.
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Weird Explorer · YouTube · Weird Explorer · 2023-06-04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48bRSbfNtHI (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: In episode 708, the presenter identifies a fruit sent by Stephen Murray of Murray Family Farms as Tahitian. He describes its aroma, juiciness, pith, and balanced sweet-tart, lemonade-like flavor, then gives spoken sweetness and tartness ratings of 7/10 and 5/10 and says there is little to no bitterness. These ratings concern the sent fruit; the separate supermarket pomelo in the video is a different, unidentified sample. The seedlessness explanation is relayed from the grower as netting to prevent pollination, not established as a cultivar-wide trait. Transcript is auto-generated; the video description spells the sender’s name “Steven.”
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alabaiCA Family · YouTube · alabaiCA Family · 2024-03-18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLJ94_DBEns (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: Auto-dubbed English captions identify fruit on the creator’s tree as Tahitian pomelo. The presenter reports a spoken weight of 1.6 kg for the fruit shown and describes greenish-yellow flesh, unusual aroma, and taste. The weight is a spoken report, not an independently verified scale reading; caption coverage is incomplete and garbled in places. Growing site, tree age, and sample count are not established, and the source does not establish whether this accession is CRC 3806 or whether Tahitian is synonymous with Sarawak.
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Thomas Osborne, MD · TastyLandscape · 2014-05-28
https://tastylandscape.com/2014/05/28/temple-tangor-royal-mandarin/ (opens in a new tab)
A separate passage in this Temple Tangor article reports the author's own Tahitian Pummelo had mealybugs on a few branches and describes his treatment. The observation is an anecdote about that tree; it does not establish cultivar-wide susceptibility or efficacy.
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hoosierquilt (Patty S.) · Houzz Discussions
https://www.houzz.com/discussions/1843765/pummelo-q-s (opens in a new tab)
This discussion includes comments by hoosierquilt, who signs as Patty S. and reports having a Tahitian pummelo. The poster calls Sarawak “Tahitian” in one description and says its flavor is very mild and almost melon-like. This is a grower’s label and sensory report; it does not establish that her plant is UCR accession CRC 3806 or the same clone as the catalog’s Tahitian Pummelo. The page displays relevant dates only relatively (“13 years ago”); exact comment date, tree accession, rootstock and harvest date are unknown.
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