A citrus fruit, Citrus paradisi. It apparently arose as a hybrid of shaddock or pummelo and sweet orange in the West Indies. Its first recorded mention was in Barbados in 1750, and the first use of the term grapefruit occurred in Jamaica in 1814. It was thought to have been introduced into Florida by Count Odelle Phillipe near Safety Harbor on Tampa Bay around 1823. The term grapefruit was derived from the tree's tendency to produce large clusters of fruit, as grape vines do.