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#2831: questions about chadek : a reply
From:Jepiem@aol.com
Haitian grapefruit, called chadeque by the locals (written chadique in some
books) seems to be a grapefruit variety that grows wild in Haiti and other
caribbean islands like the Bahamas and Jamaica. However, according to Julia
Morton, the jamaican grapefrruit or "smaller shaddock" is much smaller than
the haitian chadeque.The name chadeque incidentally is the same as Shaddock
the name of the Pumelo, a very large citrus native to Southeast Asia whose
Dutch name of pompelmoes, pampelmus in german gave rise to the name
pamplemousse in french, which is what the haitian chadeque is sometimes
called. Confusion confusion. So don't feel so bad if you don't know how to
spell the name chadeque or shaddock. Incidentally, no I don't believe
fertilizers have anything to do with chadeque being different from the many
varieties of grapefruit encountered in the US. It's just another variety of
citrus.
Math Jerome