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  • COMMON NAME: Key lime, acid lime.
  • ARABIC: الليمون البلدي أو الليمون البرتقالي الأوراق
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Citrus aurantiifolia
  • SYNONYMS: Citrus aurantium, Citrus depressa, Citrus hystrix, Citrus medica.
  • FAMILY: RUTACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Sharjah , Ras-Al-Khaimah , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Fodder (F) Fruits (F) Apiculture (A)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Terrace Terrace (Silt) Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
  • REMARKS: Plants used by honeybees for nectar collection for honey production.
V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021. https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/13438 https://www.floraofqatar.com/citrus_aurantiifolia.htm
Edible fruit. Fodder for goats. Honey nectar plants.
small, densely and irregularly branched, evergreen tree, about 5 m tall; twigs armed with short, stiff, sharp spines. Leaves alternate, elliptic to oblong-ovate, 4-8 x 2-5 cm, margin crenulate; petioles narrowly winged. Inflorescences short axillary racemes, 1-7(-10)-flowered; flowers small, white in bud; calyx cup-shaped, 4- to 6-lobed; petals 4-6, 8-12 mm long; stamens 20-25(-34), ovary 9-12(-15)-celled, style abruptly distinct. Fruit a globose to ovoid berry, 3-6 cm in diameter, sometimes with apical papillae, greenish-yellow; peel very thin, very densely glandular; segments with yellow-green pulp-vesicles, very acid, juicy and fragrant. Seeds small, plump, ovoid, pale, smooth with white embryos (polyembryonic). Flowering from March-April.
Cultivated places and farms.
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