Lime tree grow and care – tree of the genus citrus is a few type of trees with the name Lime also known as Lemon tree, 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 tropical, subtropical, mediterranean, desert climate and growing in hardiness growing zone 8+.
Leaves color green in elliptic shape and some cultivars has thorns, flowers are white with purple with yellow stamen.
Lime tree edible fruit
Fruit size ~13-24 cm’ and color is mostly green, but can be yellow, white. Most of the Lime trees are sour but Sweet Lime tree is sweet, the inner fruit divided by segments, the segment cover with soft thin layer, it containing the pulp (little cones covered with a thinner layer). Rind color green, green-yellowish, yellow The rind is edible but sometimes little bitter also used as flavor and fragrant