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Monarda citriodora is a species of flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae, that is native to the southern United States [2] and northern Mexico. [1] [3] Common names include lemon beebalm, [4] [2] lemon mint (this may also apply to Eau de Cologne mint or Melissa officinalis) and purple horsemint.
Lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) is a perennial herbaceous plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae. [2] Lemon balm plants grow bushy and upright to a maximum height of 100 centimetres (39 in). The heart-shaped leaves are 2–8 cm (3 ⁄ 4 – 3 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) long, and have a rough, veined surface.
The stems are square, like most other plants in the mint family. The leaves are borne in opposite pairs on the stems, and are usually ovate or heart-shaped and emit a lemony scent when bruised. Axillary spikes of white or yellowish flowers appear in the summer.
It was SoCal nurseryman Paul Ecke Sr. who took a little-known, spindly outdoor plant from Central America in the early 1920s and bred it into a hardy potted plant "whose tapering red leaves have ...
By 1905, the exchange represented 5,000 members, 45% of the California citrus industry, and renamed itself the California Fruit Growers Exchange. Between 1927 and 1939, the exchange sold more than 75% of all California citrus. In the 1947–48 season, the exchange had around 15,000 citrus growers. [4]
The Portuguese "Limoneira" means lemon grove or lemon farm which was their principal crop. [11] The year 1895 was a milestone for the company when it planted 690 orange trees, its first non-lemon product. By 1898 the company had nearly 50,000 trees, consisting of: 32,000 lemon trees, 3,000 grapefruit trees and 12,000 orange trees. [12]