Pomelo origin in China's Guangdong Meizhou, Guangxi Yulin, Fujian Zhangzhou, Wenzhou Cangnan.
1, Meizhou, Guangdong
Meizhou, Guangdong is known as the "hometown of China's golden pomelo", the local planting of Shatian pomelo has a hundred years of history, the current planting area has reached 25 million mu, with a total production of 237,000 tons, is China's largest pomelo production. It is the largest pomelo production base in China.
2, Guangxi Yulin
Guangxi Yulin mainly produces Shatian Pomelo, with the title of "king of pomelo", the fruit has a golden color, crisp flesh, sweet taste and other characteristics, is China's national geographic indications of the products of the local Rongxian is known as "China's Shatian Pomelo". "Hometown of Chinese Shatian Pomelo".
3, Zhangzhou, Fujian
Heping County, Zhangzhou, Fujian and the country's first large honeydew production county, the local climate and geographical conditions are very suitable for the growth of pomelo, produced pomelo sold to the country as well as around the world, has been more than 500 years ago the history of planting.
4, Wenzhou Cangnan
Wenzhou Cangnan is known as the "four seasons of the pomelo township," the local four seasons of spring, the climate is pleasant, so the planting of the pomelo can blossom in four seasons, four seasons of the results, the yield is very high, in the market occupy an important position.
Pomelo
Pomelo (scientific name: Citrus maxima (Burm) Merr.) is a plant of the family Rutaceae, genus Citrus. Trees. The shoots, leaf backs, pedicels, calyx and ovary are pilose, the young leaves are usually dark purplish red, and the shoots are flat and angular.
Leaves are rather thick, densely green, broadly ovate or elliptic, 9-16 centimeters long and 4-8 centimeters wide with jib leaves. Racemes, sometimes with axillary solitary flowers; buds light purplish-red, sparsely creamy-white; calyx irregularly 5-3-lobed; petals 1.5-2 centimeters long; stamens 25-35, sometimes partially sterile.
Fruit orbicular, oblate, pyriform or broadly conical, pericarp very thick or thin, spongy, oil cells large, raised, core solid but flaccid, sarcocarp 10-15 or as many as 19-merous; seeds up to 200 or more, also seedless, irregularly shaped, usually suboblong, monoembryonic. Flowering April-May, fruiting September-December.