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minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-22 months agoOranges don’t exist naturally, was the point I was making. Theyre a hybrid, derived at least partly from pomelo.
minus-squareFushuan [he/him]@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoYou are right, it’s just that in Spanish a “pomelo” is a grapefruit, and I was unaware of the whole rabbit hole that is the hybridwtion of the pomelo, mandarin, citrus and all that. I deleted my old comment because I was just confused.
minus-squareHawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoNo worries, I don’t know all the details and looking more deeply, it looks to be more complicated than I was remembering too.
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Oranges don’t exist naturally, was the point I was making. Theyre a hybrid, derived at least partly from pomelo.
You are right, it’s just that in Spanish a “pomelo” is a grapefruit, and I was unaware of the whole rabbit hole that is the hybridwtion of the pomelo, mandarin, citrus and all that. I deleted my old comment because I was just confused.
No worries, I don’t know all the details and looking more deeply, it looks to be more complicated than I was remembering too.