Most of the time when you cut into a grapefruit, you find a few seeds that you can easily flick away with the tip of your knife. I was surprised to cut into this grapefruit and see all of these seeds!
Eager to get on with my breakfast, I didn't stop to count the seeds. But later wondered - how many seeds does a grapefruit produce? Was this an anomaly, or routine for some grapefruit varieties?
Turns out, some grapefruit (Citrus x. paradisi) can be seedless or nearly seedless, others may have up to 90 seeds! Learn more from Fruits of Warm Climates, by Julia F. Morton, the Rutaceae section: https://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/grapefruit.html. Although this grapefruit appears fiendishly fertile, it may only be about average!
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| Seeds galore |
Eager to get on with my breakfast, I didn't stop to count the seeds. But later wondered - how many seeds does a grapefruit produce? Was this an anomaly, or routine for some grapefruit varieties?
Turns out, some grapefruit (Citrus x. paradisi) can be seedless or nearly seedless, others may have up to 90 seeds! Learn more from Fruits of Warm Climates, by Julia F. Morton, the Rutaceae section: https://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/grapefruit.html. Although this grapefruit appears fiendishly fertile, it may only be about average!
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