Plant · P-415

Pomelo

Citrus maxima

Pomelo is the largest of the citrus fruits and the wild parent species behind grapefruit, its fruit running 6 to 9 inches across and 2 to 4 pounds. The white, yellow or pink flesh is grapefruit-like but sweeter and drier in the segment, eaten after peeling away a thick pith, and that same pith yields naringin, the bittering agent used commercially in beverages. It only tolerates occasional dips to 32 F and dies back at 26 F or below, and its mature size makes it a poor container subject, so it needs a genuinely mild climate or a heated structure rather than a pot wheeled indoors for winter.