Limau gedang

Limau gedang
	Limau gedang merah jambu, sitrus hibrida.
Klasifikasi ilmiah
Kerajaan:	Plantae
(tanpa takson):	Angiospermae
(tanpa takson):	Eudikotil
(tanpa takson):	Rosids
Ordo:	Sapindales
Famili:	Rutaceae
Genus:	Citrus
Spesies:	C. × paradisi
Nama binomial
	Citrus × paradisi; Macfad.

Limau gedang (Citrus × paradisi) adalah sebuah pohon sitrus subtropis yang dikenal karena buahnya yang memiliki rasa asam dan semi-manis. Limau gedang adalah sebuah hibrida yang bermula di Barbados ketika sebuah persilangan yang tak disengaja terjadi antara dua spesies yang diperkenalkan, jeruk manis (C. sinesis) dan pomelo atau shaddock (C. maxima), keduanya diperkenalkan dari Asia pada abad ketujuh belas.^[1] Ketika ditemukan, buah tersebut dianggap sebagai "buah terlarang";^[2] dan juga secara salah paham dikira pomelo.^[3]

Produksi[sunting | sunting sumber]

China adalah produsen limau gedang dan pomelo teratas, disusul oleh Amerika Serikat dan Meksiko.

Tujuh produsen limau gedang (termasuk pomelos) teratas — 2012
Negara	Produksi (metrik ton)	Catatan kaki
Tiongkok	3,800,000	F
Amerika Serikat	1,046,890
Meksiko	415,471
Thailand	328,000	F
Afrika Selatan	304,559
Israel	246,618
Turki	243,267
Argentina	200,000	F
India	200,000	F
Sudan	196,000
Ghana	192,000
Dunia	8,040,038	A
Tanpa simbol = angka resmi, P = angka resmi, F = perkiraan FAO, * = Tak resmi/Semi-resmi/data cermin, C = angka hitungan A = Agregat (dapat meliputi resmi, semi-resmi atau perkiraan); Sumber: Food And Agricultural Organization of United Nations: Economic And Social Department: The Statistical Division

Referensi[sunting | sunting sumber]

^ Carrington, Sean; Fraser, HenryC (2003). "Grapefruit". A~Z of Barbados Heritage. Macmillan Caribbean. hlm. 90–91. ISBN 0-333-92068-6. One of many citrus species grown in Barbados. This fruit is believed to have originated in Barbados as a natural cross between sweet orange (C. sinesis) and Shaddock (C. grandis), both of which were introduced from Asia in the seventeenth century. The grapefruit first appeared as an illustration entitled 'The Forbidden Fruit Tree' in the Rev. Griffith Hughes' The Natural History of Barbados (1750). This accords with the scientific name which literally is 'citrus of paradise'. The fruit was obviously fairly common around that time since George Washington in his Barbados Journal (1750-1751) mentions 'the Forbidden Fruit' as one of the local fruit available at a dinner party he attended. The plant was later described in the 1837 Flora of Jamaica as the Barbados Grapefruit. The historical arguments and experimental work on leaf enzymes and oils from possible parents all support a Barbadian origin for the fruit.
^ Dowling, Curtis F.; Morton, Julia Frances (1987). Fruits of warm climates. Miami, FL: J. F. Morton. ISBN 0-9610184-1-0. OCLC 16947184.
^ Li, Xiaomeng; Xie R.; Lu Z.; Zhou Z. (July 2010). "The Origin of Cultivated Citrus as Inferred from Internal Transcribed Spacer and Chloroplast DNA Sequence and Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Fingerprints". Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science. 135 (4): 341. Diakses tanggal 27 Februari 2013.