Description : The pomelo flower, The pomelo is also known as a shaddock, after an English sea captain, Captain Shaddock, who introduced the seed to the West Indies in the 17th century from the Malay Archipelago. In the Pacific and Asia, it is known as jabong and in Chinese it is called y?uzi (??) (not to be confused with the yuzu, which uses the same kanji but is a different species), while it is called som o (?????) in Thai, and buntan or banpeiyu in Japanese.