![]() I don't have a convenient 10 metre drop to test this, and while I have no reason to doubt the veracity of this citation, I'm now consumed with curiosity why this plant has evolved to have this feature. (Ignoring for the moment that Pomelo is one of the parents of the modern grapefruit.) I have a Marsh grapefruit tree, fruiting now (southern hemisphere) as it happens, and I note that it produces particularly pithy progeny. ![]() The freefall of grapefruit from 10 m does not damage the pulp because pomelo peel consists of vascular bundles and an open-pored cellular structure with the struts made of parenchymatic cells.
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