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The pummelo is indigenous to southeast Asia (Thailand, Malaysia). It was reported to grow wild on river banks in the Fiji and Friendly Islands. It was reportedly introduced into China around 100 B.C. It is widely cultivated in southern China (Kwang-tung, Kwangsi and Fukien Provinces) and especially in southern Thailand; also in Taiwan and southernmost Japan, southern India, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea and Tahiti. Pummelo was believed to have been brought to the New World in late seventeenth Century by a Captain Shaddock who stopped at Barbados on his way to England. By the end of the seventeenth century, the fruit was being cultivated in Barbados and Jamaica.

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