Pomelovariety
Banpeiyu
Banpeiyu came to California as budwood from Japan in 1985. It's an exceptionally large, thick-rinded, seedy pomelo with pale-yellow flesh, possibly the same as Pai You, though that isn't certain.
Taste & texture
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- juicy
How to spot it
- Flesh
- yellow
- Shape
- round
- Size
- very large
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
- shape
- roundcitrusvariety.ucr.edu ↗
- size
- very largecitrusvariety.ucr.edu ↗
- flesh colour
- yellowcitrusvariety.ucr.edu ↗
- texture
- soft, juicycitrusvariety.ucr.edu ↗
ucr profile observations
- scope
- Collection source observation, not independently confirmed global cultivar identity
- summary
- Banpeiyu is represented by a 1985 budwood introduction from Japan. The historical description reproduced by UCR records exceptionally large, thick-rinded, seedy fruit with pale yellow flesh; its proposed equivalence to Pai You is qualified, not certain.
- source url
- citrusvariety.ucr.edu ↗
- accession id
- accession:ucr-crc-3961
Photos
Hồ Đức HảiCC BY-SA 4.0 Banpeiyu pomelo