Grapefruit

Grapefruit
Grapefruit, hybrid citrus.
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Sapindales
Faimily:	Rutaceae
Genus:	Citrus
Species:	C. × paradisi
Binomial name
Citrus × paradisi Macfad.

The grapefruit (Citrus × paradisi) is a subtropical citrus tree kent for its sour tae semi-sweet fruit, an 18t-century hybrid first bred in Barbados.^[1] Whan foond, it wis named the "forbidden fruit";^[2] an it haes an aa been misidentified wi the pomelo or shaddock (C. maxima), ane o the parents o this hybrid, the ither bein sweet orange (C. × sinensis).^[3]

These evergreen trees uisually grow tae aroond 5–6 meter (16–20 ft) in hicht, tho thay can reak 13–15 metre (43–49 ft)^*. The leafs is mirk green, lang (up tae 150 mm, 6 inch) an thin. It produces 5 cm (2 in) white fower-petaled flouers. The fruit is yellae-orange skinned an lairgely an oblate spheroid; it ranges in diameter frae 10–15 cm. The flesh is dividit in liths an is shilp, varyin in colour dependin on the cultivars, whilk include white, pink an reid pulps o varyin sweetness (generally, the reider varieties is sweeter). The 1929 US Ruby Red (o the Redblush variety) haes the first grapefruit patent.^[4]