r/mildlyinteresting • u/Own_Ad_409 • 1d ago

Giant lemon rinds on wife’s lemon tree

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u/Own_Ad_409 1d ago

Yeh apparently this is a citron

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u/longtimegoneMTGO ​ 1d ago

My money is on it being a grafted tree where the graft failed and the root stock took over. Citrus macrophylla is a common one that looks a lot like that.

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u/fury420 1d ago

Does all the fruit on the tree look like this?

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u/Own_Ad_409 1d ago

Yeh, kinda like lemons but much bigger and bumpy

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u/fury420 1d ago

Yeah if they are all like this it's either a citron or a seed-grown citrus that's expressing citron traits.

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u/LaughingBeer 1d ago

What does it taste like?

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u/Logitech4873 1d ago

That's what we call lemon in Norwegian. Isn't that just the same thing?

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u/AndrewBorg1126 1d ago

Lemons are a hybrid between this fruit and some type of orange

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u/KeepTheNolander 1d ago

It's a different thing in English, I believe citron is lemon in French as well.

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u/fla_john 1d ago

No wonder Europeans don't have actual lemonade.

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u/MoultingRoach 1d ago

Citron is lemon in french. Im not sure what you'd call this, tbh.

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u/Wild-Video-5317 1d ago

In english, with accompanying latin:

Citron (Citrus medica)

Lemon ( Citrus × limon)

What we call "lemon" in English is a hybrid plant.

The citrus family is a strange and complex world of hybrids, and the terms for them vary quite a lot from language to language.