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minus-square@Hawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish8•edit-210 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]linkfedilinkEnglish5•10 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-square@Hawke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•10 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.
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.