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Introduction to the Donglan Hongqi Pomelo Variety and Its Main Characteristics

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Donglan Hongqi Pomelo is an excellent early-maturing pomelo variety discovered and selected by the Fruit Bureau of Donglan County, Guangxi, from a local seedling pomelo tree. It is named for its pink flesh and its ripening in the middle and late parts of the seventh lunar month. It ripens 30-50 days or more earlier than mid-to-late-maturing pomelos such as Shatian Pomelo. Its early maturity is considered rare among pomelo varieties nationwide, making it an ideal gap-filling variety to supply the market during the off-season for fruit around the Mid-Autumn Festival, with particularly strong market potential. From 1992 to 1994, it participated in the Guangxi early-maturing pomelo evaluation and ranked first in total score for three consecutive years. In 1997, it participated in the national early

Donglan Hongqi Pomelo is an excellent early-maturing pomelo variety discovered and selected by the Fruit Bureau of Donglan County, Guangxi, from a local seedling pomelo tree. It is named for its pink flesh and its ripening in the middle and late parts of the seventh lunar month. It ripens 30-50 days or more earlier than mid-to-late-maturing pomelos such as Shatian Pomelo. Its early maturity is considered rare among pomelo varieties nationwide, making it an ideal gap-filling variety to supply the market during the off-season for fruit around the Mid-Autumn Festival, with particularly strong market potential.

From 1992 to 1994, it participated in the Guangxi early-maturing pomelo evaluation and ranked first in total score for three consecutive years. In 1997, it participated in the national early-maturing pomelo evaluation and won the "Golden Cup Award." At present, the planting area in its place of origin, Donglan County, is about 3000 mu, and it has begun to come into production, with an annual output of about 300,000 fruits.

The Hongqi Pomelo tree has a semi-spreading, round-headed crown; strong branching ability, with short thorns on small branches; oval leaves, slightly thick and fleshy, dark green in color; large white flowers; pear-shaped fruit with a long neck at the stem end, the neck being 2-3 cm high; smooth peel, orange-yellow when ripe, with an obvious coin-shaped ring at the bottom of the fruit; average single fruit weight 1300-2500 g; each fruit contains 80-150 seeds; the segment walls and juice sacs are pink; juice content 53%, vitamin content 50 mg/100 g juice, sugar content 4.84%, acid content 0.88%, soluble solids content 10%; rich in juice, crisp and tender flesh, good melting quality, sweet and sour and pleasant to eat.

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