Common names (English):

Bitter orange, Bigarade, Country lime, Sour lime, Sour orange

Local name (Kannada):

Habit: Tree

Distribution:

Native to Africa, Arabia and Indo-Malesia

Use: Beverage

Description:

Shrub or bushy tree, to 3 m high; branchlets slender with sharp spines. Leaves alternate, 1-foliolate; leaflets ovate-oblong, rounded at base, crenate at margin, acute at apex; petioles narrowly winged. Inflorescences lax axillary racemes, 2-7 flowered. Flowers white. Petals 4, oblong, glandular. Stamens 20-28; filaments polyadelphous, white. Fruits oblong, 4-6.5 x 3.5-6 cm, pitted, glandular, shining, green.

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