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Duncan

Variety of Grapefruit · Citrus paradisi
The most aromatic white grapefruit – full-flavoured and ideal for juice, but very seedy.
Edible value9
🇺🇸 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

J F M A M J J A S O N D
Flowering
Storage

Given in thirds of a month (early / mid / late) for the northern hemisphere in a temperate climate; altitude and season shift them.

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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