Duncan
Variety of Grapefruit · Citrus paradisi
The most aromatic white grapefruit – full-flavoured and ideal for juice, but very seedy.
🇺🇸 USA 1892
Taste & characteristics
Taste
sourtartjuicybitteraromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Sämling einer frühen Florida-Grapefruit
- Breeder
- A. L. Duncan (Florida)
- Pollination
- self-fertile
- Fruit weight
- 400 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Large fruit with white flesh of excellent, robust flavour; however it contains many seeds (30-50).
Growth
Very hardy, cold-tolerant and long-lived tree.
Yield
High yields; regarded as the benchmark for flavour in the juice industry.
Notes
Oldest important named cultivar; today used mainly for processing due to the seeds.
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