Kalpi (fruit) explained

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'.^{[1] [2]}

Description

The handsome tree is medium-sized, 5to 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.

Taxonomy

'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.^[3] The common name 'Kalpi' is from the Bicolano dialect.

It was published as Citrus webberii Wester in 1915 in Philipp. Agric. Rev. 1915, viii.^[4]

Distribution

'Kalpi' grows in Luzon and Mindanao, in the Philippines.^[5]

External links

• INRA
• Plants JSTOR
• Citrus fruits in the Philippines (book)
• Carl W. Campbell
• Plant Resistance Genes

Notes and References

1. http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/oc/freepubs/pdf/F_N-25.pdf Lemons in Hawai‘i
2. Web site: Not So Sour: Lemons in Hawai'i. Dania Katz. edible Hawaiian Islands Magazine. 2013-07-11.
3. Web site: Citrus × webberi Wester is an unresolved name . . 18 January 2017.
4. Web site: Rutaceae Citrus webberii Wester . International Plant Names Index (IPNI) . 18 January 2017.
5. Web site: Citrus Pages / Papedas . Jorma Koskinen and Sylvain Jousse . free.fr.