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Title: Its a citrus... Any idea which one??
Post by: GRACELAND on February 04, 2015, 12:43:45

dad grew a tree from one of these... Its a citrus... Any idea which one??

Title: Re: Its a citrus... Any idea which one??
Post by: Digeroo on February 04, 2015, 21:05:56

Do not think it is a citrus.  They have pips like oranges, lemons and grapefruit and come in a fruit like an orange, lemon or grapefruit or kumquat. Certainly not in a pod.

Can you produce a pic of the tree,

Title: Re: Its a citrus... Any idea which one??
Post by: GRACELAND on February 05, 2015, 10:07:36

will try

Title: Re: Its a citrus... Any idea which one??
Post by: GRACELAND on February 05, 2015, 13:02:36

 have a pic of the tree yes... Er just ignore the lemons on it!! Lol...

 The tree also has thorns on it. And the leaves do smell of citrus

Title: Re: Its a citrus... Any idea which one??
Post by: artichoke on February 05, 2015, 17:42:29

My first thought was tamarind, but of course the leaves and seeds are completely different. Do the pods by any chance come in pairs? If so it might belong to the Asclepiadacae or Apocynaceae families. Can you describe the flower? Anything like oleander?

Title: Re: Its a citrus... Any idea which one??
Post by: Jayb on February 05, 2015, 18:11:42

It looks like a citrus plant to me. Some of mine have got thorns on them too. The different citrus plants all give off a slightly different scent if you gently crush a couple of leaves, I guess not much help if you don't have any to compare it to, but if it is similar to lemon or to a lime then it probably is. I'll go do a sniff test tomorrow and see if I can tell what's what by scent.

The seed or pods you show in the first picture don't look like citrus though.

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Post by: okra on February 05, 2015, 18:14:39

Limes have thorns and the leaves look citrusy but the fruit is not a lime

Title: Re: Its a citrus... Any idea which one??
Post by: Pescador on February 06, 2015, 19:20:21

Citrus jifficus, without a doubt

Title: Re: Its a citrus... Any idea which one??
Post by: alkanet on February 06, 2015, 19:45:12

are you sure those seed pods aren't the nest of some parasitic waspy thing??

Title: Re: Its a citrus... Any idea which one??
Post by: artichoke on February 09, 2015, 22:36:28

Ha ha, that reminds me of explaining to an interested child in Greece that the pistachio bushes around us produced pistachio nuts, of course, but that the big fat swollen, reddened leaves it bore were caused by parasites - I tore some open to show him the creatures crawling round inside. But his father interrupted to say that this was all nonsense and it was a bush that produced two different kinds of fruit, nothing to do with parasites. I was a little offended, but there was no point in arguing. However, the child had seen the creatures, did not contradict his father, but I could see that terrible doubt that comes over children as they grow up and gradually realise that their parents don't know everything.....

However, that fruit looks to me so like a legume that I wonder if the bush/leaves actually produced it. Could some bean type thing have climbed into the bush and caused confusion?

Title: Re: Its a citrus... Any idea which one??
Post by: galina on February 10, 2015, 09:59:51

Quote from: Pescador on February 06, 2015, 19:20:21

Citrus jifficus, without a doubt

:drunken_smilie: ?

 :tongue3: :icon_cheers: :wave:  !

Title: Re: Its a citrus... Any idea which one??
Post by: skp on February 12, 2015, 14:47:57

Could be POMELO? Some plants have thorns while there are thornless varieties.

Title: Re: Its a citrus... Any idea which one??
Post by: alkanet on February 12, 2015, 17:51:21

Watson, this problem certainly isn't lemonentary!