Silvia's Red Lime
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whgille
11 years agoHi Beo
I only know the red lime with that name, here is the info from Echo, scroll down and you will find it.
I use them all year round and I just made a marinade for the pork that I am cooking tomorrow for a party, limes are very juicy and good flavor for that. It is a nice tree and dwarf so you can keep it in a container if you don't have space.
Here it is now in the yard.
Silvia
Here is a link that might be useful: red lime
tomncath
11 years agoI sure would like to know too. I've given away approximately 80 seedlings, these are staying with me :-)
Tom
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11 years agoNo, not all. The fruit does not look like that one.
Here is a close up picture of the fruit.
Silvia
carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b
11 years agoBeopposed
11 years agowhgille
11 years agoHi Carol, it is bigger than the calamondin but it does not taste the same. Calamondin has thinner skins that are great to make a marmalade, I also like it in rice or noodle dishes.
Red lime is more versatile and it is like comparing regular lemons with the Meyer that is milder. It is more juicier than regular limes for sure.Beo, I looked at the lime chart and I don't see it. I also have a calamondin tree and the red lime is not that for sure.
My calamondin just now, when they turn color I will make marmalade.
Silvia
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11 years agoEvery Mann
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoHello everyone-- I live on an island off the Gulf Coast of Florida, and I have been growing a red lime tree--at least I *think* it's a red lime tree--that I chanced across @3 years back. The tree is @10' tall and just began blooming this spring for the first time. The tree has no thorns, the maturing limes (there are 25-30 limes growing) are nearly perfectly round, but to this point, they are green and not red. The two largest/most ripe limes are developing a large yellow spot on top from what I believe is sun exposure, but no sign of redness. There is precious little info about the red lime on the internet, and I see here there's a nice person named Silvia who is growing these. I find reference to an Australian red lime and a rangpur lime from India, but the photos of those depict an oblong fruit; mine are perfectly round.
Can any of you with experience verify that this is in fact a "red lime," and that the limes turn red upon ripening...?
whgille
7 years agoHi Every Mann
Thank you, I think that you got the red lime, mine looks just like yours. If you open one the insides will be red. Mine is also green on the outside, eventually they turn red but you can use them already in anything that you use citrus, it makes a good lemonade too.
I just took these pictures for you...
Silvia
Every Mann
7 years agowhgille
7 years agoEvery Mann, they do get an orange tone around winter time, here is one in February. They actually look like mini oranges but they are not sweet.
And I used it on this dish from the garden
Silvia
shuffles_gw
6 years agolast modified: 6 years agoAfter about six years from seed we finally have four red limes. Two are these yellow ones; the other two are green. I got my seedling from tomncath who grew Sylvia's seeds. Thanks Tom and Sylvia. Anyone else getting fruit from seedlings from that era? Hopefully this photo will post. Only one of the four is round. The other three have a bit of a pear shape.
ibarbidahl
6 years agowhgille
6 years agoHi Shuffles! congratulations! you have the patience of a saint.:) I cannot believe it is 6 years already, I guess time flies. I hope that you get a lot of limes in the coming years, mine never stop producing, every year is a good year.
Hi Barbie! I miss the garden parties and most of all the gardening friends that came to share with us some wonderful times! Hope that one day we can all get together again and talk plants, my favorite subject....
My red lime today
Silvia
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