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Like the Rangpur lime and rough lemon, it is a hybrid of a mandarin orange (C. reticulata) and a citron (C. medica), with the citron being the pollen parent and the mandarin being the seed parent. The fruit is moderately large (around the size of an orange), seedy, round and slightly elongated, and yellow-orange in color. Yukou: Citrus yuko
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]
A citron with a lemon shape, it has no acid or juice, and a rough, thick rind that tastes bitter. The flesh is slightly sweet, and it has many seeds. [3] 'Moroccan' A sweet, non-acidic cultivar. [3] 'Odorata' Its size and shape varies. The skin is almost smooth, and the rind is dense and sweet.
The earliest complete description of the citron was written by Theophrastus, c. 310 BCE. [18] [19] [20] 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 ...
The Key lime cultivar is a citrus hybrid, Citrus micrantha × Citrus medica (a papeda-citron cross). [9] [10] [11] The Key lime has given rise to several other lime varieties. The best known, the triploid progeny of a Key lime-lemon cross, is the Persian lime (Citrus × latifolia), the most widely produced lime, globally.
Name Binomial Hardiness Edibility Notes Citrandarin: Citrus reticulata × Citrus trifoliata e.g. Cultivar US852 : −18 °C (0 °F) Edible 'Changsha' citrandarin is the hardiest citrus hybrid
A second group of Key lime hybrids, including the Tanepao lime and Madagascar lemon, are also triploid but instead seem to have arisen from a backcross of a diploid Key lime ovule with a citron haploid gamete. The "Giant Key lime" owes its increased size to a spontaneous duplication of the entire diploid Key lime genome to produce a tetraploid ...
The 'Hybride Fourny' was found to be an F1 hybrid of a citron-pomelo cross, while the 'Jaffa lemon' was a more complex cross between the two species, perhaps an F2 hybrid. The Pomme d'Adam arose from a citron-micrantha cross, while two other lumias, the ‘Borneo’ and ‘Barum’ lemons, were found to be citron-pomelo-micrantha mixes. [5]