Last spring I bought this Keylime citrus tree from Home Depot, but I,m not sure it this an actual lime tree.Please,help me to determain the type of this citrus.



Thanks,Viktor

Looks like a Key lime. Eustis Limequat looks very similar, but has narrower longer leaves. If your concerned that they are turning yellow, all limes will turn yellow when ripe.

Looks like a key lime to me. - Millet

The slight elongation of the fruit and the little bit of a neck on the ones on the plate make me think of my Lakeland limequat.

.....Alan.

Laaz,Millet and Alan thanks for your replies.I think that my lime is a limequat.Because on the tag it's written as keylime(limequat).I didn't know what kind of citrus it was and wanted to check it out.Today I compared keylime fruits from Wall-Mart and my "keylime" fruits.Now I am sure that my citrus is limequat.But I don't know if it's Eustis or Lakeland ?

Viktor have a look here http://users.kymp.net/citruspages/kumquats.html

I would guess limequat. One of the large citrus nurseries in Florida labels their limequats exactly as Viktor describes. Their tags have a picture of a deer (buck) on them, but Wal-Mart may require their own tag be used. I am not absolutly sure, but I believe they grow Eustis. Alan is correct in describing the fruit too. I have Eustis limequats at the nursery.

Ned

If the nursery tag has a deer head on it and it's from Florida then it's probably Record Buck and your tree is very likely a Lakeland then because that's where mine came from.

In practical terms I find the Lakelands and the true Key limes to be completely interchangeable.

.....Alan.

Record Buck's is the nursery I was referring to. Up until Alan's post, I have thought Record Buck's grew Eustis, but I could be wrong, it just might be Lakeland. I understand that they look much alike. I took some pictures of my limequate and key lime that clearly shows the difference it the two. I will try to post them tonight.

Ned

A couple of my E. Limequats.

Sure looks like my limequat, but I disagree that limequats and key limes are completely interchangeable. When mature, the peel of a limequat is edible, but the peel of a key lime never gets edible, at least in my opinion.

Lazz,

Yours looks much like mine except mine has turned yellow and yours may be a little more elongated, which might be because mine is ripe. I have read that one or the other has an orange tint when ripe. How about yours? Also, mine has 8 sections where your's has 7, which I think might be normal variation.

In all of the limequats I have seen there is a noticable difference in true Key lime and limequat.

Here are some pics. In the first pic the top one is a limequat and the bottom one a Key lime.


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The one on the left is a lime and on the right is a limequat.

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Right limequat, left Key lime

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Laaz,Ned.My limequat fruits looks like yours Eustis limequat fruits.My "Key lime" tag has a deer head.

I am pretty sure this is Eustis. I compared it to at a good picture of Eustis on the front of Lance Waldheim's Citrus, and it is a dead ringer for mine.

Ned

Thank you every one for the link that you provided for me and for the wonderful photos you posted. - Viktor