Citrus glauca
Citrus glauca | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Sapindales |
Family: | Rutaceae |
Genus: | Citrus |
Species: | C. glauca
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Binomial name | |
Citrus glauca (
Lindl.) Burkill | |
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Citrus glauca, commonly known as the desert lime, is a thorny shrub or small tree native to Queensland, New South Wales, and South Australia.[2][3] The 1889 book The Useful Native Plants of Australia records common names native kumquat and desert lemon.[4]
Taxonomy
Under the
Description
A shrub or small tree to 12 metres (39 ft), it has several unusual characteristics. It is cold, heat, drought and salinity tolerant and thought evergreen. If the rains should fail it will shed its leaves and live off the green bark on the plant branches. It will set fruit almost immediately after flowering and is the earliest citrus to do so. Fruit is small and variable and depends on current climatic conditions and genetic make-up. Thorns appear on low-growing branches to prevent grazing by rabbits, kangaroos, cattle etc. but cease on branches above the grazing level.[citation needed] The fruit is globular, and about half-an-inch in diameter.[4] The limes have an intense piquant flavour, and good rainfall years produce an abundance of fruit.[citation needed]
Economic uses
The desert lime fruit is a highly prized
The fruit is beginning to be domesticated. Commercial cultivation of this fruit is beginning to reduce the reliance on wild-harvested product.[6][7]
Taxonomy, cultivars, and hybrids
Australian limes
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Australian outback lime
The Australian Outback lime was selected by
Hybrids
The eremolemon is thought to be a natural true-breeding
Notes
- ^ "Citrus glauca (Lindl.) Burkill — The Plant List". Retrieved 14 May 2015.
- ^ Burkill, Isaac Henry. 1932. Gardens' Bulletin, Straits Settlements 5 (Index): 3. Citrus glauca.
- ^ Citrus pages, Native Australian Citrus, Citrus glauca Archived 2014-03-23 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c J. H. Maiden (1889). The useful native plants of Australia : Including Tasmania. Turner and Henderson, Sydney.
- ^ a b It grows quickly and tolerates saline soil.Jorma Koskinen and Sylvain Jousse. "Native varieties from Australia and New Guinea / Eremolemon". Citrus Pages. Archived from the original on 11 July 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
- ^ ISBN 0-646-15496-6.
- ^ ISBN 0-207-14383-8.
- ISBN 0-646-07470-9.
- ^ Jorma Koskinen and Sylvain Jousse. "Citrus Pages / Native Australian varieties". free.fr. Archived from the original on 2015-07-11.
- ^ "The Australian Outback Lime". CSIRO Science Image. Archived from the original on 6 January 2018. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
- ^ Jorma Koskinen and Sylvain Jousse. "Native varieties from Australia and New Guinea / The citrus types previously known as Eremocitrus". Citrus Pages. Archived from the original on 11 July 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
References
- Bruneteau, Jean-Paul, Tukka, Real Australian Food, ISBN 0-207-18966-8.
- Cherikoff, Vic, The Dining Downunder Cookbook, ISBN 0-9752021-0-3.
External links
- "Citrus glauca (Lindl.) Burkill". Atlas of Living Australia.
- Media related to Citrus glauca at Wikimedia Commons