Here is the fruit cut open. I'm not sure what other details to give; the tree is really tall, like over 10 feet tall I think. It was planted before I got here in the backyard of our rental property so I don't know any other details. We are in San Francisco, so the climate gets foggy and cool during the summer, but during the non summer months on nice days the spot gets a ton of sun, and we really don't get a lot of rain except for during the winter months. I will show a picture of the thorns in the next picture.

Those paint markings are what field grown nurseries use for identifying scion and rootstock combinations. It is hard to tell from the photos the exact colors. Please list them here from top to bottom and we may be able to identify it for you. I say may because most nurseries use a standard color coding chart while some may have developed their own standards.

Mandarin seedlings can, indeed, have some pretty wicked thorns. In fact, I have a Shasta Gold grafted mandarin that had some pretty crazy thorns. Steve, what you can do is contact the grower who has coined this term "Sweetlee" and find out what the actual cultivar is. Sort like the "Sumo" mandarins are really Dekopon/Shiranui, or the "Cutie" mandarins are actually 3 different mandarin cultivars, depending on what time of year it is :-) You and I had this conversation a while back, and I think I explained to you there is no "Sweetlee" cultivar, and most likely this was a marketing term, not uncommon for growers to make their retail product more attractive to the consumer. Here is a link I found, see if they will be up front with you and tell you what orange seedling you may actually have: http://www.orangering.com/fruit-Sweet-Lee-Oranges-60.cfm Now, there is always the chance you have a zygote seedling, which would be a hybrid of this orange and whatever the pollen parent was. Or not. Since commercial orchards are usually grown in large blocks of like trees, chances are on your side that even if it is zygotic, its pollen parent is the same cultivar. Let us know what you're able to find out. Patty S.

But I just read up a bit on Rangpour (kona) Lime trees. I don't think it is a match. My tree has no thorns, the fruit has 7 segments, and mine just turn yellow/green when ripe--no matter how long you leave them. They never get fully orange or redish.