Star Ruby

Variety of Grapefruit · Citrus paradisi

Intensely red-fleshed, seedless grapefruit with the deepest flesh colour – a Mediterranean standard.

🇺🇸 USA 1970

Taste & characteristics

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

Medium, seedless fruit with smooth, often red-blushed rind and very deep red, colour-stable flesh. Low bitterness, balanced sweet-acid.

Somewhat weaker growing and more sensitive to herbicides and climatic stress than other varieties.

Good yields; retains its deep red colour throughout the season.

Produced by X-ray irradiation; leading variety in Israel, South Africa and the Mediterranean.

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