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Variety of Grapefruit · Citrus paradisi
Florida standard red grapefruit with deep red colour, seedless and sweet-mild.
9🇺🇸 USA 1987
Taste & characteristics
Taste
sourjuicysweetrefreshing
Profile
- Parentage
- Sämlingsselektion aus Henderson (rote Grapefruit)
- Breeder
- USDA/Florida-Selektion
- Pollination
- self-fertile
- Fruit weight
- 360 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Medium-large, seedless fruit with smooth yellow, partly blushed rind and deep red flesh with a red core.
Growth
Productive, well-adapted tree for the humid-warm Florida climate.
Yield
High yields; excellent, uniform red colour early in the season.
Notes
Most important red-fleshed commercial variety in Florida alongside Ruby Red.
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