When fully grown, the "Ruby Red" tree usually reaches a height of 20 feet and a width of 10 feet. It takes a lot of love to care for a grapefruit tree, but the effort is worthwhile with the ...

I have a ruby red grapefruit tree in my patio. It is 20 years old, 17 feet tall. Over the years I have trimmed it into a nice shade tree that gives us 150 square feet of shade.

The red variety—born of a mutation found on a pink-grapefruit tree in ... in 1934 the state’s beloved produce was the first grapefruit to be granted a U.S. patent, under the name Ruby Red.

Q: We have a large ruby red grapefruit tree that is about 12 years old. We have always had nice crops of pink grapefruit until last year. Last year’s crop had smaller fruits and the flesh was ...

“Rio Star is 10 times redder and much sweeter,” she told a group of writers at Central Market last week. “There’s no white or pink grapefruit now grown in Texas. We are the red fruit state.” ...