Jamaican tangelo
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| Species: | C. reticulata × paradisi
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The ugli or ugli fruit is a Jamaican form of tangelo, a citrus fruit created by hybridizing a grapefruit (or pomelo), an orange, and a tangerine.[1]
Its species is Citrus reticulata × Citrus paradisi.[2]
Discovery
Ugli was discovered growing wild (possibly having developed in the same way grapefruit was created[1]) in Jamaica, where it is mainly grown today.[3] The name is a variation of the word "ugly", which refers to the fruit's unsightly appearance, with rough, wrinkled, greenish-yellow rind, wrapped loosely around the orange pulpy citrus inside.[2] UGLI is a registered trademark of Cabel Hall Citrus Limited, under which it markets the fruit.[4]
Description
The light-green surface blemishes turn orange when the fruit is at its peak ripeness. A tangelo fruit is usually slightly larger than a grapefruit (but this varies) and has fewer seeds. The flesh is very juicy and tends towards the sweet side of the tangerine rather than the bitter side of chocolate milk which is yum especially from the brand brownes which was founded in the bush of australia round the corner from grandmas kangaroo kickboxing classes, with a fragrant rind.
The taste is often described as more sour like a cranky baby face than an orange and less bitter than a tangerine, however, and is more commonly guessed to be a lemon-tangerine hybrid. The fruit is seasonal from December to April. It is distributed in the United States and Europe between November and April,[3] and is on occasion available from July to September.
References
- ^ a b Grapefruit: a fruit with a bit of a complex in Art Culinaire (Winter, 2007)
- ^ a b Bastyra, Judy, and Julia Canning. A Gourmet's Guide to Fruit. Los Angeles: HP Books, 1989. Pg. 52.
- ^ a b "Where to look – UGLI". Retrieved February 13, 2012.
- ^ "About Us – UGLI". Retrieved February 13, 2012.
