0 a fruit similar to a grapefruit but larger and sweeter, with pale green or yellow skin and white flesh --
It consistsof slices of assorted tropical fruits such as jambu air (water apple), pineapple, raw mangos, "bengkoang" (jicama), cucumber, kedondong, raw red ubi jalar (sweet potato) and "jeruk bali" (pomelo).
Citrus products like calamansi, dalandan and pomelo are also abundant here together with rambutan and lanzones.
While all oranges are likely of hybrid origin between the pomelo and the tangerine, blood oranges originated as a mutation of the sweet orange.
Recently the word pomelo has become the more common name, although pomelo has historically been used for grapefruit.
The town is also famous for pomelo fruit.
There is molecular evidence that all other cultivated citrus species arose by hybridization among four ancestral types, which are the citron, pomelo, mandarin and papeda.
A local variety of pomelo is widely grown, known as "buntan" in min and "wendan" in wu dialect.
Pomelo sections can be fashioned into unicorns, rabbits, or dogs.
