Shaddock
ಚಕ್ಕೋತचकोतरेபம்ப்ளிமாஸ்
Citrus maxima (Burm.) Merr.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 10 m
- wide
- —
Rutaceae
Formerly Aurantium decumana, Aurantium maximum, Citrus costata, Citrus grandis, and 5 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Assam to Indo-ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from AUB Landscape Plants, one source
- Height
- 5.0 m to 15 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -3.9 °C (USDA zone 9b)Read from AUB Landscape Plants and Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: AUB Landscape Plants -1.1 °C; Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens -6.7 °C
Not known yet: spread, water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (10)
- Chinese
- 柚, 柚子, 橘红
- Simplified Chinese
- 抛, 柚, 文旦
- Slovenian
- pomelo
- Hindi
- चकोतरे, चकोतरा
- Tamil
- பம்ப்ளிமாஸ்
- Telugu
- గజ నిమ్మ, గజనిమ్మ
- Kannada
- ಚಕ್ಕೋತ
- Marathi
- पपनस
- Bangla
- ছোলঙ্গ, বাতাবি লেবু, বাতাবী লেবু
- Malayalam
- ബബ്ലൂസ്, ബബ്ലൂസ് നാരങ്ങ, കമ്പിളി നാരങ്ങ
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- AUB Landscape Plants, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Mount Vernon Estate & Gardens, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3D model: Citrus maxima (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.