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  2. Lemon - Wikipedia

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    The lemon, like many other cultivated Citrus species, is a hybrid, in its case of the citron and the bitter orange. [5] [6] The lemon is a hybrid of the citron and the bitter orange. [6] Taxonomic illustration by Franz Eugen Köhler, 1897 . Lemons were most likely first grown in northeast India. [7] The origin of the word lemon may be Middle ...

  3. Citrus taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    Initially, many citrus types were identified and named by individual taxonomists, resulting in a large number of identified species: 870 by a 1969 count. [18] Some order was brought to citrus taxonomy by two unified classification schemes, those of Chōzaburō Tanaka and Walter Tennyson Swingle, that can be viewed as extreme alternative visions of the genus.

  4. Citrus - Wikipedia

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    Lemons, pomelos, and sour oranges were introduced to the Mediterranean by Arab traders around the 10th century CE. Sweet oranges were brought to Europe by the Genoese and Portuguese from Asia during the 15th to 16th century. Mandarins were not introduced until the 19th century. [17] [18] [19] Oranges were introduced to Florida by Spanish colonists.

  5. List of domesticated plants - Wikipedia

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    Places, where crops were initially domesticated, are called centers of origin. This is a list of plants that have been domesticated by humans . The list includes individual plant species identified by their common names as well as larger formal and informal botanical categories which include at least some domesticated individuals.

  6. The serious reason you need to stop putting lemon ... - AOL

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    Even though lemon is a natural germ-killer, it can still get contaminated itself. Another ABC investigation testing one lemon at 10 different restaurants found that half the wedges contained human ...

  7. Lemonade - Wikipedia

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    Adding in the sugar, acid and remaining bits of lemon, he offered the resulting mixture as "strawberry lemonade" and saw his sales double. [12] [15] Real lemons were too expensive for the circus, so artificial substitutes were widely used. [13] In the past, tartaric acid was commonly used to produce the typical tart flavor. [13]

  8. Siracusa lemon - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. 15 '50s Cars That Were Just Really Ugly - AOL

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    Cars in the 1950s were visually striking, and not always for good reasons. ... and over 160,000 units were made from 1955 to 1962 —it was the top-selling single-cylinder car in the world ...