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Ponkan (Citrus poonensis; "Chinese Honey Orange") is a high-yield sweet Citrus cultivar with large fruits in the size of an orange. It is a citrus hybrid (mandarin × pomelo), though it was once thought to be a pure mandarin. Taiwan tangerine Flat lemon Hirami lemon Thin-skinned flat lemon Citrus × depressa: Tangelo Honeybell
The lemon (Citrus × limon) is a species of small evergreen tree in the Citrus genus of the flowering plant family Rutaceae. The lemon is a hybrid of the citron and the bitter orange . Its origins are uncertain, but some evidence suggests lemons originated during the 1st millennium BC in what is now northeastern India .
Citrus trees like soil that isn't very dense—loamy is better, and possibly even a little sandy. ... To do this, find an actively growing but slightly matured shoot on a lemon tree and cut a ...
The citrange (a portmanteau of citrus and orange) is a citrus hybrid of the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange. The purpose of this cross was to attempt to create a cold hardy citrus tree (which is the nature of a trifoliate), with delicious fruit like those of the sweet orange. However, citranges are generally bitter.
The citron (Citrus medica), historically cedrate, [4] is a large fragrant citrus fruit with a thick rind. It is said to resemble a 'huge, rough lemon'. [ 5 ] It is one of the original citrus fruits from which all other citrus types developed through natural hybrid speciation or artificial hybridization . [ 6 ]
Cold-hardy citrus is citrus with increased frost tolerance and which may be cultivated far beyond traditional citrus growing regions. Citrus species and citrus hybrids typically described as cold-hardy generally display an ability to withstand wintertime temperatures below −5 to −10 °C (23 to 14 °F).
Lemonade fruit (Citrus limon x reticulata), otherwise known as Lemonade lemon, New Zealand lemonade or Unlemon [1] is a variety of sweet lemon citrus fruit, believed to be a hybrid between a mandarin orange and a lemon. It was first discovered in New Zealand in the 1980s as a chance seedling, [1] and is grown principally in the warmer parts of ...
The Siracusa lemon is characterised by a high juice content and abundance of oil glands in the skin, as well as the high quality of its essential oils.The Siracusan variety of lemon is called a femminello because of the fertility of the plant, which flowers all year round: the primofiore matures from October 1, has an elliptical shape, skin and flesh which varies from light green to lemon ...