Finger Lime tree grow and care – as shrub or small tree of the genus Citrus also known as Lime caviar or Australian finger lime, is a type of Lime. Finger Lime tree perennial evergreen plant, grow for edible fruits, can be used also as ornamental plant and can grow as dwarf tree or bonsai, can grow in subtropical or mediterranean climate and growing hardiness growing zone 10+ and in hardiness zone 9b with the overwinter care.
Leaves color green in elliptic shape, buds white with purple and the flowers are white with yellow/green stamen.
Finger Lime tree edible fruits
Fruit are oval in size ~3-10 cm, inside the fruit there is pulp (small round cells covered with a thinner layer). The cells can appear in a variety of colors: yellow, write, red, green, it can be sour to sour with hint of sweet the taste remind lemon or lime, rind appears in green, red, brown, orange, black, skin color is not indicative of the color of the inside spheres, the rind is edible used as spices for flavor and fragrant