Thong dee

Thong Dee pomelo is of the Thai group of pomelos.  The trees are large and vigorous.  The fruit is very large and broadly obovoid to oblate, with a slightly depressed apex.  The smooth light yellow rind is medium-thin and tightly adherent.  The flesh is tinged pink and the flavor is good when grown under appropriate climatic conditions. The pulp is juicy and easily separable from the membrane walls. When cross-pollinated, the fruit is very seedy.  Early introductions of this variety into California were by seed and the fruit lacked the pink flesh pigmentation, but the latter introduction, via budwood and currently available, fits the standard well.  Thong Dee is midseason in maturity and holds well on the tree.