Jamaican tangelo

Ugli fruit, peeled and sectioned

An Ugly fruit (Template:Pron-en) is a Jamaican tangelo, a citrus fruit created by hybridizing a grapefruit (or pomelo according to some sources), an orange and a tangerine.* Its species is Citrus reticulata × Citrus paradisi.

It was discovered growing wild in Jamaica where it is mainly grown today. Its name derives from the unsightly appearance of its rough, wrinkled, greenish-yellow skin, wrapped loosely around the orange pulpy citrus inside. The light green surface blemishes turn orange when the fruit is at its peak ripeness. An ugly fruit is usually slightly larger than a grapefruit (but this varies) and has fewer seeds. The flesh is very juicy and tends towards the sweet side of the tangerine rather than the bitter side of its grapefruit lineage, with a fragrant skin. The taste is often described as more sour than an orange and less bitter than a tangerine, however, and is more commonly guessed to be a lemon-tangerine hybrid. Ugly fruit are sold under the brand names of Ugli and Uniq Fruit. The fruit is seasonal from April to December. It is distributed in the USA and Europe between November and April, and is on occasion available from July to September.

External links

• Cabel Hall Citrus Ltd's website about the fruit
• Brooks Tropicals factsheet about the Uniq Fruit