I was watching a video of wool being harvested in rural part of China, and one of the screen shots in the video caught my eye. There was what appeared to be a pomelo tree with large size yellow fruits that were covered in snow/frost. Two of the fruits were then harvested. The other nature screen shots showed what appeared to be something between snow and frost on the ground, lightly covering everything.
I looked in the comment section of the video and someone asked where this was. Someone responded Chuan Bei, North of Sichuan.
The video can be seen on Twitter here:
https://twitter.com/cnliziqi/status/1211582452428263425?lang=enIt's also one of
@cnliziqi 's videos on TikTok.
Video is also on YouTube, "(羊羔毛斗篷)Weave a lamb wool cape for the freezing winter|Liziqi Channel "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvmC-leoj9UNow, the first thing that comes to mind, could those be Ichang lemons?
They appear to look more like pomelos to me, with the oblong pomelo shape. And they are definitely as big as Chinese-style pomelos (
youzi 柚子).
The leaf shape shows a very small petiole. Which looks more similar to the leaves of my pomelo than my Ichang lemon plant.
The video is also kind of interesting, although the pomelos are just one quick scene.
I'm looking on a map and Chuanbei appears to be just south of Ziyang, which is a little south of Chengdu.
I'm comparing to the official climate zone map and that appears to be in zone 10a, very close to the border of 9b.
But from the video, it looks like this is up in the mountains, so maybe the plant zone map does not fully take the local elevation into account (it is a very generalized map with wide swaths, probably would not show local variations in small areas).
I don't think zone 10a would have frost like that (unless things are very different in China), so I think we can assume this is more probably in zone 9.
I'm now looking at another climate zone map and Ziyang appears just a little north of the 30 degree parallel line, and that latitude line is just a little north of the border between zone 10a and 9b, putting Ziyang clearly just on the other side in zone 9b.
https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/50301000/Graphics/Climate_china.pdf