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Citrus fruit and plant
Kalpi
(
Citrus
×
webberii
) is a natural
citrus hybrid
native to
Philippines
and is today one of the most common lemons in
Hawaii
, and is sometimes called 'Malayan lemon'.
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Description
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The handsome tree is medium-sized, 5 to 10 metres (16 to 33 ft) tall. The acidic fruit is very juicy; they are used like lemons. Size is variable, depressed and globose, with 9 to 11 segments and very thin skin, yellowish when ripe.
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Taxonomy
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'Kalpi' is a
papeda
. It looks somewhat like the common Philippine
mandarin orange
and the native
Citrus macroptera
.
It is named
webberii
after
Herbert John Webber
, by his disciple, abbreviation author
Peter Jansen Wester
. It has also been referred to incorrectly as
webberi
.
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The common name 'Kalpi' is from the
Bicolano dialect
.
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It was published as
Citrus webberii
Wester in 1915 in Philipp. Agric. Rev. 1915, viii.
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Distribution
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'Kalpi' grows in
Luzon
and
Mindanao
, in the Philippines.
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