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Trying again - Please help identify this citrus tree

newbie76
14 years ago

I apologize for the myriad posts. I am completely hopeless at uploading photographs...

Here is my post again:

Hi! I "inherited" this citrus tree when I bought this house in December 2006. Two and a half years later, it is bearing its first load of fruit. However, I have no idea what fruit it is! I have taken several photographs of the tree and hope that someone on here can identify it.

Here are some characteristics that aren't covered by the photographs:

- The leaves do not have a very fragrant aroma when crushed (opposed to my lime tree that has very fragrant leaves).

- I cut off one fruit, thinking it was a lime (before I did the leaf test) and cut it open. (This was about a month ago.) Inside the fruit, the rind is rather thick and the fruit peeled away from the rind easily. The fruit was white(ish), although it had a slight pinky-yellow tinge to it.

- The fruit tasted slightly sweet, not very acidic.

- The flowers bloomed around April and they were plain white (I think they were relatively similar in shape to my lime tree flowers). The flowers were fragrant.

- The tree is no more than three feet tall. Although it is difficult to ascertain its exact height because the tree is sort of bent over. I'm trying to brace it to help it grow straight. It has not grown much (if at all) since I moved into the house in December 2006.

- It did not bear any fruit or flowers before April 2009.

Here are the photographs. I hope this worked!

[IMG]http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g44/ICH76/Topofcitrusfruit.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g44/ICH76/2fruittogether.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g44/ICH76/Clusteroffruit.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g44/ICH76/Sideangleoffruit.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g44/ICH76/Sideangleof1fruit.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g44/ICH76/Anotherpictureofcitrusleaf.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g44/ICH76/Semi-closeupoftree.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g44/ICH76/Pictureofwholetree.jpg[/IMG]

Thank you, in advance, for any help. I'd love to know what type of citrus this is, so that I can harvest it at the correct time. :)

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