Citrus maxima
(pummelo)

Preferred Common Name

• pummelo

Other Scientific Names

• Citrus aurantium var. grandis L.
• Citrus decumana L., nom. illeg.
• Citrus grandis Osbeck
• Citrus grandis Osbeck

International Common Names

• English: shaddock
• Spanish: pomelo
• French: pomelo

Local Common Names

• Germany: Apfelsinenbaum, Riesen-; Orangenbaum, Leder-; Orangenbaum, Riesen-
• Italy: pompelmo

EPPO code

• CIDGR (Citrus maxima)

• Domain: Eukaryota
•     Kingdom: Plantae
•         Phylum: Spermatophyta
•             Subphylum: Angiospermae
•                 Class: Dicotyledonae
•                     Order: Rutales
•                         Family: Rutaceae
•                             Genus: Citrus
•                                 Species: Citrus maxima

Major host of:

Adoretus versutus (rose beetle); Anastrepha ludens (Mexican fruit fly); Anoplophora chinensis (black and white citrus longhorn); Aonidiella aurantii (red scale); Bactrocera aquilonis; Bactrocera caryeae; Bactrocera kandiensis; Bactrocera minax (Chinese citrus fly); Ceroplastes destructor (white wax scale); Chrysomphalus aonidum (circular scale); Chrysomphalus dictyospermi (dictyospermum scale); Citripestis sagittiferella (citrus fruit borer); Citrus impietratura disease (samrah); Citrus tristeza virus (citrus tristeza); Citrus yellow mosaic virus (mosaic of citrus); Diaporthe citri (melanose of Citrus); Geotrichum candidum (citrus race) (citrus sour rot); Glomerella cingulata (anthracnose); Monacrostichus citricola; Parlatoria pergandii (chaff scale); Penicillium italicum (blue mould); Pinnaspis strachani (lesser snow scale); Pseudocercospora angolensis (leaf spot of Citrus spp.); Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae (bacterial canker or blast (stone and pome fruits)); Rhizobium radiobacter (crown gall); Rhizobium rhizogenes (gall); Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (cottony soft rot); Toxoptera citricida (black citrus aphid); Unaspis citri (citrus snow scale); Xanthomonas citri (citrus canker)

Minor host of:

Anastrepha fraterculus (South American fruit fly); Anastrepha serpentina (sapodilla fruit fly); Anastrepha suspensa (Caribbean fruit fly); Bactrocera correcta (guava fruit fly); Bactrocera cucurbitae (melon fly); Bactrocera facialis; Bactrocera jarvisi (Jarvis' fruit fly); Bactrocera neohumeralis; Bactrocera psidii (South Sea guava fruit fly); Bactrocera tryoni (Queensland fruit fly); Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (citrus greening); Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris (yellow disease phytoplasmas); Cuscuta japonica (Japanese dodder); Cylindrocarpon lichenicola; Erthesina fullo (yellow-spotted stink bug); Eudocima fullonia (fruit-piercing moth); Ganoderma lucidum (basal stem rot: Hevea spp.); Lasiodiplodia theobromae (diplodia pod rot of cocoa); Lepidosaphes tokionis; Marasmius crinis-equi (horse hair blight); Neoscytalidium dimidiatum; Phyllocoptruta oleivora (citrus rust mite); Phytophthora citrophthora (brown rot of citrus fruit); Platynota stultana (omnivorous leaf roller); Scutellonema brachyurus; Selenaspidus articulatus (West Indian red scale); Spiroplasma citri (stubborn disease of citrus); Trioza erytreae (African citrus psyllid)

Associated with (not a host):

Amblyseius multidentatus; Tylenchorhynchus mediterraneus

Host of (source - data mining):

Aculops pelekassi (citrus rust mite, Japanese); Aleurocanthus woglumi (citrus blackfly); Anastrepha obliqua (West Indian fruit fly); Bactrocera carambolae (carambola fruit fly); Bactrocera dorsalis (Oriental fruit fly); Bactrocera kirki; Bactrocera occipitalis; Ceroplastes rubens (red wax scale); Ceroplastes stellifer; Circulifer tenellus (beet leafhopper); Citrus exocortis viroid (citrus exocortis); Coccus viridis (soft green scale); Crypticerya multicicatrices (multicicatrices fluted scale); Cuscuta reflexa (dodder); Dacus bivittatus (fruit fly); Diaporthe foeniculina; Eotetranychus cendanai; Eutetranychus orientalis (Citrus brown mite); Guignardia citricarpa (citrus black spot); Hop stunt viroid (hop stunt viroid); Icerya seychellarum (Seychelles scale); Lepidosaphes beckii (purple scale); Maconellicoccus hirsutus (pink hibiscus mealybug); Nipaecoccus viridis (spherical mealybug); Paratylenchus minutus; Parlatoria ziziphi (black parlatoria scale); Penicillium digitatum (green mould); Phyllocnistis citrella (citrus leaf miner); Phyllosticta citrimaxima; Phytophthora palmivora (coconut budrot); Planococcus lilacinus (cacao mealybug); Pseudaonidia trilobitiformis (trilobite scale); Rastrococcus invadens (fruit tree mealybug); Scirtothrips dorsalis (chilli thrips); Xanthomonas axonopodis (gummosis: grasses)