They are occasionally used as rootstock on citrus trees so anything that grows below the graft will produce the rootstock fruit or if the tree died back below the graft at some point the entire tree can just be the rootstock species.
Look up the difference between broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, kale, kohlarabi and collards. All of em are more or less the same plant bred for different genetic characteristics. The history of how the orange was created, how a lot of citrus fruits were made by hybridization, is pretty cool. Strawberries are one such fruit too. Selective crossbreeding and horticulture is pretty neat.
The cool bit is more why they graft. If the rootstoxk is from a dwarf tree it will dwarf whats on top, if its more cold hardy it will make the top more so, but the most common reason is usually disease resistance. Unfortunately grafted trees often have a shorter lifespan due to the graft failing or getting infected with age. Peaches and plums will usually last about 15 years depending on climate
Yeah trifolate and swingle are pretty common rootstocks and both can be super thorny. They will eventually produce fruit, not good fruit.... but fruit like things.... regrafting is pretty easy luckily. Flying dragon rootstock does look really cool though
Yes you can, they are often called "fruit salad" trees. Similarly you can have pears, apples, and quince on one tree, and peaches, plums, apricots and cherries on another. As long as the grafts are the same family it generally works, there are some odd non compatability issues with certain varieties. Theres an guy who makes trees with 40 different varieties per tree. Upkeep takes some work since you have to be more careful about branch pruning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_40_Fruit
Yep. Wife had a grafted rosebush at our old house and it died one winter from the frost and when it came back the next year we didn't get any blooms, and the year after that instead of the dark red blooms, they were a sickly yellow, lol.
Be careful with them; if they are citrons (they’d taste like a sort of mellow non-bitter grapefruit), then they’ll mess with medications the same way grapefruit does.
They are one of the 4 original citrus fruit and are absolutely delicious. The flesh is quite tart but the white pith is sweet and has a texture a bit like an apple. You can cut it into long segments and eat both bits together.
He said "bullshitter," but that's not his argument. He also claims it could simply be a mutant lemon and you can't tell by the photo. Now, if the other person is able to, or even cares, they could respond with how they know it's a citron and not just a mutant lemon.
Just contradicting someone isn't really refuting their point, though. The person claiming it's a citron did actually link the Wikipedia page for citrons further down-thread, which very much supports their point. Ol' freudian_nipps, on the other hand, hasn't presented a shred of evidence - combined with the insults, it certainly sounds like they're just being contrary for the sake of it.
You're right that it didn't refute the original comment, but I think the word refute was actually used by the other person. Contradict is a better word, but if his premise is true, it would cast doubt on the certainty of the original claim. He was rude calling the guy a bullshitter for no good reason, but that wasn't the premise of his argument. In any case, I think anyone could be forgiven for assuming it's probably a citron based on the photo. It wasn't that serious and I don't think the man being called a bullshitter was pretending to be some kind of lemon expert anyway.
Saying they're full of shit with no actual argument isn't being a contrarian ya know. Let me present the question then as someone who has had lemon trees. What is more likely? A Citron rootstock with a graft and that fruit grew below the graft, or a mutation?
Do you have a source for that? Studies of lemons with this mutation, maybe? Because this looks like a citron or citron-like hybrid, and the person you're calling a bullshitter did provide a source in giving us the Wikipedia page for citrons. And the rootstock info from other folks is also correct (which I personally know from being in gardening groups, but is also reflected on that same Wikipedia page).
So far, the only one who seems to be bullshitting here is you.
My Mandarin tree has Citron as the root stock and sends up suckers. I let one of the suckers grow and it produced fruit like that. All rid and very bitter.
Those are heller popular in Asia for lemon tea, if I did not mix the translation up. They are called perfume lemon here and they are added to iced lemon tea.
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u/Own_Ad_409 1d ago
Oh cool I thought they were just mutants