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Do sour oranges taste like lemons?
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Posted by mamakatb 9 (Central CA) (My Page) on Thu, Feb 4, 10 at 18:29
| Probably a stupid question, but I've been trying to identify my citrus tree for a while...
I posted a while back about it, and was told that it might be a Seville/Sour Orange. I've never tasted a sour orange before, so I wasn't sure if there should be something more orange-like about its flavor. It definitely tastes like a lemon.
Is it at all possible that the it could have cross-pollinated with our lemon tree?
Here is a picture of the tree:
(I can't believe how heavy with fruit these branches are!)
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h154/kat82501/P1090443.jpg |
Follow-Up Postings:
RE: Do sour oranges taste like lemons?
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| It looks to me like a Chinotto, or myrtle-leaf orange, Citrus myrtifolia, which is closely allied to the sour oranges. In any case, lemon pollen would have no effect at all on fruit flavor. |
RE: Do sour oranges taste like lemons?
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| I'd vote for maybe Meyer lemon? they are more round than other lemons, color up a little more orange color that most lemons but are definitely lemon flavor, just a little less acid that most lemons but still tart, and the dark bark for an in ground tree is about right. the exact parentage of Meyer is not known, as it was discovered in the open, rather than part of a breeding program, but some have speculated that it may have been a cross with a lemon and an orange. |
RE: Do sour oranges taste like lemons?
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| But softmentor, the photo doesn't look even vaguely like a 'Meyer'??? |
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