Ugli Fruit

The Ugli fruit, more formally called the Jamaican tangelo, is a citrus hybrid of a tangerine or orange with a grapefruit or pomelo that first appeared spontaneously growing wild near Brown's Town, Jamaica, around 1917. Commercial cultivation began on the Sharp family's Trout Hall plantation in Clarendon Parish in the 1930s, and the fruit was exported to Canada and Britain by 1934 and the United States by 1942. Beneath its rough, wrinkled, greenish-yellow rind, the flesh is very juicy and sweeter than a grapefruit but more sour than an orange, and the name Ugli, a registered trademark, plays on the fruit's unattractive appearance despite its pleasant taste.