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Citrus poonensis
Also called Citrus, Citrus Fruits, Finger Lime, Kumquat, Kumquats, Lemon, Lime, Orange
Ponkan is a sweet, easy-peeling citrus with large, orange-sized fruit, a mandarin and pomelo hybrid. It is a fruit tree grown outdoors in warm, sunny climates, and it bears heavily every other year.
Ponkan (Hokkien Chinese: 椪柑; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: phòng-kam); Citrus poonensis; "Chinese Honey Orange") is a high-yield sweet Citrus cultivar with large fruits in the size of an orange. It is a citrus hybrid (mandarin × pomelo), though it was once thought to be a pure mandarin.
Ponkans are widely grown in the United States, Brazil, Japan and China. In Taiwan, it is an important citrus crop often cultivated as high-end fruit and exported mainly to Hong Kong, Japan, and Canada.
It was originally introduced to the United States by Carlo Roman in 1880. His original grove is still in production near Hawthorne in Putnam County, Florida. The city of Teresópolis in Brazil holds an annual Ponkan festival.
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