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Citrus maxima
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Citrus maxima (pummelo)

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Datasheet Type(s)
Host Plant

Preferred Scientific Name
Citrus maxima

Preferred Common Name
pummelo

Taxonomic Tree
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Spermatophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Dicotyledonae

Uses List
Beverage base
Fruits
Source of medicine/pharmaceutical
Spices and culinary herbs

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Citrus maxima (pummelo); fruit and foliage. Pali o Waipio Huelo, Maui, Hawaii, USA. March 2013.

Fruit

Citrus maxima (pummelo); fruit and foliage. Pali o Waipio Huelo, Maui, Hawaii, USA. March 2013.

©Forest & Kim Starr - CC BY 4.0

Citrus maxima (pummelo); habit. Pali o Waipio Huelo, Maui, Hawaii, USA. March 2013.

Habit

Citrus maxima (pummelo); habit. Pali o Waipio Huelo, Maui, Hawaii, USA. March 2013.

©Forest & Kim Starr - CC BY 4.0

Citrus maxima (pummelo); flowers and foliage. Enchanting Floral Gardens of Kula, Maui, Hawaii, USA. March 2012.

Flowers

Citrus maxima (pummelo); flowers and foliage. Enchanting Floral Gardens of Kula, Maui, Hawaii, USA. March 2012.

©Forest & Kim Starr - CC BY 4.0

Identity

Preferred Scientific Name

Citrus maxima (Burman) Merr.

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)

Taxonomic Tree

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

List of Pests

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 dorsalis (Oriental fruit fly); 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 Phytoplasma asteris (yellow disease phytoplasmas); Ceratitis capitata (Mediterranean fruit fly); Cuscuta japonica (Japanese dodder); Cylindrocarpon lichenicola; Eudocima fullonia (fruit-piercing moth); Ganoderma lucidum (basal stem rot: Hevea spp.); Lasiodiplodia theobromae (diplodia pod rot of cocoa); Liberibacter asiaticus (Asian greening); 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):

Aleurocanthus woglumi (citrus blackfly); Anastrepha obliqua (West Indian fruit fly); Bactrocera carambolae (carambola fruit fly); Bactrocera kirki; Bactrocera occipitalis; Ceroplastes rubens (red wax scale); Ceroplastes stellifer; Circulifer tenellus (beet leafhopper); Coccus viridis (soft green scale); Crypticerya multicicatrices (multicicatrices fluted scale); Dacus bivittatus (fruit fly); Eotetranychus cendanai; Eutetranychus orientalis (Citrus brown mite); Guignardia citricarpa (citrus black spot); Icerya seychellarum (Seychelles 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; Planococcus lilacinus (cacao mealybug); Pseudaonidia trilobitiformis (trilobite scale); Rastrococcus invadens (fruit tree mealybug); Scirtothrips dorsalis (chilli thrips)

Uses List

Human food and beverage

Beverage base
Fruits
Spices and culinary herbs

Medicinal, pharmaceutical

Source of medicine/pharmaceutical

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