Ok, I may actually, finally be losing it!
Last week, my Master Gardener class had a field trip to Magnolia Gardens. While we were touring the gardens, we passed a Flying Dragon that was probably 10 feet tall, full of fruit. I asked the head horticulturist if he minded if I snagged a couple of fruit to plant the seeds for rootstock. He said "No Problem" I got four nice fruits and ended up with 132 seeds.
Now the weird part. While I was slicing them open, I was waiting for the wicked smell. Nothing, actually smelled Lemony. I was remembering the REALLY nasty taste, but figured, what the heck. Yes, I tasted them! Waiting for the gag reflex to hit , again nothing. Hmmmm, not bad. I wouldn't want to drink a gallon of it, but I think with a good bit of sugar, it would pass in an emergency. Might even work in a cookie recipe. Am I nuts? Have I finally burned out my taste buds eating all those Habanero and Scotch Bonnett peppers?
Anybody else ever find a passible FD? I am hoping the seeds produce something even better.
Keeping the fingers crossed.
Darren

Well, you happen to sample from a sport mutation which grew palatable fruits in that specific type of environment and culture. Fruits may not be palatable if grown elsewhere, and you can test it if true or not, since you have the seeds. There are variations amongst the trifoliate, so won't be surprised if anybody finds fruit that are edible.

There is one growing in my back yard. It has very long crooked thorns. It still has the Trifoliata taste. It does not taste too bad while still green but nothinbg that I would recommend to be worth while to grow. It is a nice novelty plant

I finally loaded up the flash card on my camera so I'm catching up on posts. This past April I finally picked the greenhouse overwintered fruit off of my Edible Flying Dragon aka 'Dragon Lime'. It took forever but it finally turned orange by the time I ate it. Well I couldn't say that the general population would eat a second one after their first taste but I didn't think it was all that bad. Of course my taste buds are a little desensitized from sampling all kinds of hardy citrus over the past few years. Keep in mind though this was probably as good as it was gonna get since it was overwintered. To me it tasted like a nearly ripe grapefruit but with no skunky trifoliate flavor. Fruit from a plant inground would've most likely had to been picked by December because of freezes. At that time the fruit was stilll mostly green and even I may not have been able to eat it. My overwintered fruit was easy to peel, about the size of a page orange and had no seeds.

These hybrids must not be too scarce. Over the past 5 or 6 years I have seen a half a dozen obviously hybrid flying dragon trees in the thousands of seeds I have grown for rootstock. The hybrids all have thorns at least twice as long as standard FD and contortions twice as much as FD. I've grafted all of them to something good like satsuma.

Nopt too bad but also not too good.

George McAfee, Houston TX got his start from me at the Southern fruit fellowship program in Houston TX many years ago. He is the one that named this hybrid Dragon Lime. The original tree was a seedling at treesearch farms, Houston TX.