Citron tree grow and care – tree of the genus citrus also known as Citrus medica or Citron lemon plant, Citron tree perennial evergreen plant, grown for the edible fruits also used as ornamental plants for the fruits like in Buddha’s hand tree and can grow as dwarf tree or bonsai, can grow in tropical, subtropical, mediterranean or temperate climate and growing in hardiness zone 9+.
Leaves color green in oval shape, flowers are white with purple with yellow stamen.
Citron tree edible fruit
Fruit shape oval can be shapeless or like hand with a lot of fingers (Buddha’s hand) size ~6-20 cm’. Rind color green, green-yellowish or orange, the rind is edible but sometimes little bitter also used as flavor and fragrant, inside color: yellow, white, green, orange, the taste mostly sours bitter sometimes the fruits seedless. The inner fruit divided by segments, the segment cover with soft thin layer, it containing the pulp (little cones covered with a thinner layer), depend on the species can be also pulp-less