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What you know about grapefruit?

Posted in Grapefruit by admin on the November 17th, 2006

grapefruit tree citrus for diet blogGrapefruit - subtropical citrus tree, wich grown for fruits. Grapefruit trees (as usually) are about 4-6 meters tall, but sometime can reach 15-16 meters. Leafs are dark-green, thin and long (up to 15 cm). The flowers are white 4-5 petalled, about 5 cm in diameter. Fruit (grapefruit) is yellow, largely oblate and ranges in diameter from 10-15 cm and has an acidic yellow segmented pulp. The color of pulp from soft-yellow to red, according the sort.

All cultivated sorts are white grapefruit or the red. The most popular are Rio Red, Star Ruby (1929 US patent) and Flame. At first grapefruit was found in 1750 in Barbados.

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