Limau gedang: Perbedaan antara revisi

'''Limau gedang''' (''Citrus'' × ''paradisi'') adalah sebuah pohon [[sitrus]] [[subtropis]] yang dikenal karena buahnya yang memiliki rasa asam dan semi-manis. Limau gedang adalah sebuah [[hibrida (biologi)|hibrida]] yang bermula di [[Barbados]] ketika sebuah persilangan yang tak disengaja terjadi antara dua spesies yang diperkenalkan, [[jeruk]] manis (''C. sinesis'') dan [[pomelo]] atau shaddock (''C. maxima''), keduanya diperkenalkan dari Asia pada abad ketujuh belas.<ref name="Carrington & Fraser">{{cite book |last1=Carrington |first1=Sean |last2=Fraser |first2=HenryC |title=A~Z of Barbados Heritage |edition= |series= |volume= |year=2003 |origyear= |publisher=Macmillan Caribbean |location= |isbn=0-333-92068-6 |pages=90–91 |chapter=Grapefruit |quote=One of many citrus species grown in Barbados. This fruit is believed to have originated in Barbados as a natural cross between sweet orange (''C. sinesis'') and Shaddock (''C. grandis''), both of which were introduced from Asia in the seventeenth century. The grapefruit first appeared as an illustration entitled 'The Forbidden Fruit Tree' in the Rev. Griffith Hughes' ''The Natural History of Barbados'' (1750). This accords with the scientific name which literally is 'citrus of paradise'. The fruit was obviously fairly common around that time since George Washington in his Barbados Journal (1750-1751) mentions 'the Forbidden Fruit' as one of the local fruit available at a dinner party he attended. The plant was later described in the 1837 ''Flora of Jamaica'' as the Barbados Grapefruit. The historical arguments and experimental work on leaf enzymes and oils from possible parents all support a Barbadian origin for the fruit.}}</ref> Ketika ditemukan, buah tersebut dianggap sebagai "[[buah terlarang]]";<ref name="Forbidden_Fruit">{{cite book |author=Dowling, Curtis F.; [[Julia Morton|Morton, Julia Frances]] |title=Fruits of warm climates |publisher=J. F. Morton |location=[[Miami, FL]] |year=1987 |isbn=0-9610184-1-0 |oclc= 16947184 |url=http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/grapefruit.html }}</ref> dan juga secara saham paham dikira [[pomelo]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Li|first=Xiaomeng|author2=Xie R. |author3=Lu Z. |author4=Zhou Z. |title=The Origin of Cultivated Citrus as Inferred from Internal Transcribed Spacer and Chloroplast DNA Sequence and Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Fingerprints|journal=Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science|date=July 2010|volume=135|issue=4|page=341|url=http://journal.ashspublications.org/content/135/4/341.full|accessdate=27 Februari 2013}}</ref>

 

[[Berkas:2005grapefruit and pomelo.PNG|thumb|right|upright=1.0|Tingkat penanaman limau gedang dan [[pomelo]] pada 2005]]

[[China]] adalah produsen limau gedang dan [[pomelo]] teratas, disusul oleh [[Amerika Serikat]] dan [[Meksiko]].

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{{Wiktionary|grapefruit}}

{{Commons category|Citrus paradisi}}

* [http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/grapefruit.html Grapefruit from "Fruits of warm climates" by Julia F. Morton.]

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