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“Starburst” Pommelo, what variety is it ?

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Lwpeter:
Our regional grocery store chain ( H-E-B) is selling an excellent pommelo marketed by Noble Citrus (Florida) as “Starburst”. 
It is excellent quality, very high brix, my wife’s favorite citrus.

Does anyone know the variety and if trees are  available for retail sale?

I went to a citrus tasting hosted by Texas Rare Fruit Growers before Christmas that had several pommelos including Valentine and Hirado Buntan.  None of the pommelos came close to Starburst.


Thanks,
Louis


https://noblecitrus.com/products/florida-starburst-pummelo/

“The Roe family discovered Florida Starburst The Roe family discovered Florida Starburst Pummelo over 25 years ago. We planted 5 trees...Then 5 acres... Then 100 acres. And we’re still increasing acreage based on demand each year.

brian:
Sounds like it's a proprietary type you can't grow yourself :(

It looks delicious, though.  I've had some really good large pink pummelos like that, and my own tree makes great yellow ones.  I found bags of pummelos at Costco a few weeks ago under BeeSweet brand, grown in California, and they are the worst pummelos I've had.  Not sure if they are just a bad crop or it is the cultivar, but they are bland and with small segments that makes it more membrane than edible part.

They are shriveled because I left them in my fridge for so long instead of eating them quickly like I normally would.  I ended up just tossing the last one after taking this picture.


meanwhile, my Chandler pummelo from madisoncitrus has a fruit almost ripe I am looking forward to trying. 

kumin:
Starburst fruit are high quality indeed. The ones I purchased had an average of 2 seeds per fruit.

sc4001992:
What was the brix reading, they never mention it.

Xenon:
This pummelo is not patented unlike their tangerines. The most info I was able to find is that it's of Thai origin.

Yes it's delicious with good acid-sweet balance and ridiculously thin skin (for a pummelo). Way better than the mostly trash pummelos from California, Oroblanco, and even the imported Vietnamese pummelos. I have some seedlings from 2022 and am growing out some more from this year, hopefully something good turns up. Yes I'm aware pummelo seed is zygotic, but it's really easy to spot pummelo seedlings from non-pummelo. Also, about half or more of the seedlings are albino and a good percentage look obviously non-pummelo.

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