Kao Pan Pummelo Budwood

Citrus maxima.

Kao Pan (which means "white flat") fruits are subglose, flattened, pistil-end depressed, and are without a neck. The rind is light to lemon yellow, smooth, and 1-2 centimeters thick. They have 12-15 segments, separating with difficulty. Flesh is light yellow. Each juice vesicle can be separated. They have a sweet, very mildly acid flavor, and there is slight to no bitterness.

Fruit medium-large, subglobose to spherical; apex slightly depressed; seedy if open-pollinated, but otherwise not (Soost, 1964).  Lemon-yellow (deeper than most) at maturity.  Rind medium-thick; faintly pebbled with prominent oil glands; tightly adherent.  Segments numerous (12-15); carpellary membranes thick and tough; axis medium-small and solid.  Juice sacs large, fleshy, easily separable, and moderately juicy.  Flavor sweet and mildly acid.  Early in maturity.

Tree medium-small, round-topped and drooping, nearly thornless; leaves medium-large and round-pointed; twigs and new shoots densely pubescent; large, woody flowers.

Rootstocks of accession:  Carrizo citrange, C-35 citrange.

Prepared by the Givaudan Citrus Variety Collection at The University of California Riverside.