Thompson
Variety of Grapefruit · Citrus paradisi
The first pink-fleshed grapefruit – a seedless Marsh mutation with pale pink flesh.
Also known as: Pink Marsh, Thompson Pink
9🇺🇸 USA 1913
Taste & characteristics
Taste
sourjuicysweetrefreshing
Profile
- Parentage
- Knospenmutation von Marsh (Seedless)
- Breeder
- W. B. Thompson (Florida)
- Pollination
- self-fertile
- Fruit weight
- 340 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Medium, seedless fruit with pale yellow rind and light pink flesh whose colour fades through the season.
Growth
Vigorous, productive tree like its Marsh parent.
Yield
High yields; pale pigmentation made it a source of more intensely coloured mutants.
Notes
First pigmented grapefruit (1913); starting point for Ruby Red and its descendants.
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