Here are pictures of my Australian ?????
I bought it as a Finger Lime.. I've been told (in other threads) that it is a round lime...
I've been mulling over Citrange's web site http://www.saalfelds.freeserve.co.uk/AusNatCitrus.htm and still confused..
I have had the tree since Feb of this yr..











I noticed some of the newer leaves are plumping up but still have a blunt tip..
Any ideas?? I'd like to put a name with this tree..
I still love the tree no matter what.. It is soooooo cool looking!!
Finger lime?? Round Lime??? Mount White lime???
Crazy Hybrid???

Gina *BabyBlue*

gina, hows the air layering coming along?

and your right, no matter what, the tree looks amazing. even all those nasty thorns

still no sign of roots..
the cuttings I took same time have rooted!!

Gina *BabyBlue*

I know nothing of air rooting, so no clue on how fast or reliable it is. lots do speak highly of it.

I cant wait till I get cuttings to root and increase my collection lost. still hard to walk in my room and see all the lack of trees. grrr. but its life

I believe it is Eremorange (a cross between Eremocitrus glauca and Citrus sinensis).

It also could be a 'eremolemon' ...

gina,

I found this site, not sure if it'll help... but its a fwew pics of australian citrus varieties. I'd try and figure it out, but all trees look alike to me. cant tell teh difference between any of mine by the leaves

I still think this is a Round Lime. It has the typical juvenile linear leaves, becoming wider as the plant matures.
It is definitely not a Finger Lime. These have much rounder leaves, even when young.
Eremorange and Eremolemon are possible - I've never seen seedlings, but mature plants have much greyer and rather dull leaves, so I think it's unlikely.
Sydney Hybrid is also possible. Seedlings are very similar to Round Lime, and again develop wider leaves as the plant matures. You can't tell for sure until you get non-round fruit.
Mike aka Citrange.

Mike,
The fruit on the Sydney it is elongated like finger lime?? I had considered it.. It might be passed off as a finger lime as the fruit is finger (ish) shaped??
how are the thorns on the Sydney?? These are huge!! seems about half the length of the leaf it is next to.. some time more some times less.. on average about half..
I think your right though.. going to have to wait (patiently) for fruit to know 100% for sure..
even then won't be 100%..
Thanks for your input Mike!!!
I'll post pics as leaves mature..

Gina *BabyBlue*

Hi Gina,

Your leaves look exactly like my Finger Lime that I got from Four Winds.

Here is a Hi rez scan of one of my leaves.



All of the new growth is purple and eventually turns green. After thoroughly searching the UK site, here's my two cents:

The round lime leaves don't look too much like the finger lime, so I think you can rule that out.

The Mount White Lime looks almost the same as the round lime. I would say no to this as well.

Eremocitrus Glauca - No

Microcitrus x Sydney Hybrid - Maybe...
http://members.aol.com/agrumivoss/sydneyh.jpg

I think you have a Finger Lime.

I have what I believe is the same plant and, after having went through this same guessing drill, I would bet that it is going to turn out to be a round lime. Mike (Citrange) knows Australian citrus better than anyone I know, so I put my money on his call. I don't think we will know for sure until one of them fruits and I don't expect it to be much longer until one does.

What would you guess to be the average juvenile period Mike?

Ned

Some reports say seedlings don't fruit for anything up to 17years, but I've got both Finger Limes and Round Limes that flowered between 5 and 7 years, about 3' to 4' tall. They produce lots of flowers but set very few fruits.

Thanks Mike. I bet the wood is approaching that age now. Mine was orginally grown from seed, and I have had it 4 or 5 years. I think it was at least several years old before I got it. I am pretty sure I am correct in assuming that the actual age of the wood from seed is the determining age, and that this aging process does not begin anew each time a cutting is rooted.

Ned, you could be correct in you assumption, but I have some reservations. In other citrus varieties, it is the node count that determines maturity not the age of the wood. - Millet

Millet, I guess my assumption was based of the fact that you can take budwood from a producing tree and it remembers that the bud count has been satisfied. Taking that as a given, I assume(d) that the bud would also "remember" it's age, even if it had not yet fully met the bud count needed to bear fruit, and continue the bud count from the point where it was removed from the donor. This is purely conjecture on my part - I have no basis for my assumption (and we all know about assume(ing) anything). It would be interesting to know for sure. If you take a juvenile bud from other types of citrus, does the count start over?

Ned