Yuzu

Yuzu Fruit

The Yuzu (Citrus × junos; over Japanese from Chinese柚子, Pinyin yòu zi ) is a flowering plant in the hybridogene the rue family ( Rutaceae ).

Origin

Probably Citrus × junos = Citrus × Citrus reticulata var ichangensis austera, for thousands of years in China in cultivation in the middle Yangtze basin.

Description

Yuzu forms a dense, upright growing shrub or small tree with fine foliage, the foliage is sometimes dropped over the winter. The branches are occupied in the leaf axils with spines up to 3 cm. The petioles are up to 1 cm wide winged and 2 cm long, the blade is sharpened at the end and rounded at the front, size of the leaf without stalk about 3 × 6 cm.

The yellow to bright orange fruit is tennis ball in size and about 100 g in weight. The shape is flattened to slightly round. The albedo is about 0.5 to 0.7 mm thick, the outer layer, the flavedo is rough. In the fruit, there are up to 40 large, polyembryonische seeds.

Flavor and juice content: The pulp is sour - aromatic, slightly bitter and juicy.

Yuzu can be used conditionally in viticulture climate with proper protection for free Landau planting.

Special: Yuzu is frost harder than Satsuma, there are different types: large-leaved, narrow-leaved, broad - and narrow winged. A very similar species, which differs by slightly reddish bud, Sudachi is called.

Use

Yuzu is widely used in the perfume industry (oils of the shell) and recently also in the fine cuisine, since the juice has a much more complex flavor than the lemon.

Yuzu was in Japan one of the most widely used rootstocks for Satsuma, now mostly replaced by the Three-leaved orange. Today Yuzu as a spice ( Yuzukoshō ) is used in Japan along with salt and pepper.

In Korea, the finely sliced ​​fruit is placed in honey and infused with water, as Yujacha ( Yuzu tea) drinking.

Documents

  • Walter T. Swingle, Philip C. Reece: The Botany of Citrus and Its Wild Relatives. In: W. Reuther, HJ Webber, LD Batchelor (eds.): The Citrus Industry, Vol 1, 1967 University of California..
  • Bernhard Voss: Citrus plants from Tropical to Hardy, Humbach & Nemazal, 1997, ISBN 3-9805521-3-6
  • Bernhard Voss: citrus plants, Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH, 2005, ISBN 3-440-10174-6
  • James Saunt: Citrus Varieties of the World, Sinclair Int. Limited, 1990, ISBN 1-872960-00-6
Genus Citrus ichangensis
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