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  • COMMON NAME: The Pineapple Orange, Blood Orange, Grapefruit, Jaffa Orange.
  • ARABIC: برتقال أحمر
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Citrus aurantium var. grandis L.
  • SYNONYMS: Citrus grandis Osbeck
  • FAMILY: RUTACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Landscape (L) Fruits (F) Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs Tree
  • HABITATS: Terrace Terrace (Silt) Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production.
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:59600-2/general-information#vernacular-names V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Edible fruit. Honey nectar plants. ornamental plant. melliferous plant.
Evergreen shrubs or trees. Leaves 1-foliolate, usually with petiole winged and articulated at the tip, gland-dotted. Flowers usually bisexual, axillary, sometimes clustered, fragrant. Petals white. Stamens in bundles. Fruit a leathery-skinned berry known as a “hesperidium”, segmented and filled with inflated hair-cells full of juice; fruit subglobose, c. 7 cm in diam.; peel orange, thick; pulp very sour and bitter. Flowering from March-April.
Cultivated places and farms.
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