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LimeLime - Tahitian
The small to medium fruit is pale lemon-yellow with smooth thin skin. The flesh is a translucent pale green, tender and juicy with a true acid lime flavour. It is best to pick the fruit green as it can suffer from rot if left to ripen on the tree.
Finger Lime - Ricks Red
Purplish red skin, with Red flesh selecion. The juicy cells, similar in appearance to caviar, are a delightful surprise in salad dressings. A rainforest tree that naturally occurs as an understorey tree in SE Queensland and Northern NSW.
Finger Lime - Wauchope
A dark skinned variety with purplish black skin, the juice vesicles range from clear to having a pinkish blush. Good flavour
Finger Lime - Grafted
Dwarf Lime - Tahitian
The small to medium fruit is pale lemon-yellow with smooth thin skin. The flesh is a translucent pale green, tender and juicy with a true acid lime flavour. It is best to pick the fruit green as it can suffer from rot if left to ripen on the tree.The dwarf rootstock, flying dragon modifies the top growth making this a dwarf plant that is ideal to use planted out or as a pot specimen.
Finger Lime - Collette
Flavour is highly aromatic and has been rated as “superior” by Chefs. Fruit is highly ornamental, with its shiny black skin and as a cut fruit, as it has a dark lime green pulp. Displays well as a garnish, with the juice vesicles popping out on cutting and the fruit splitting open wide. Its wide shape facilitates scooping out the pulp with a teaspoon. Rind colour is black/purple at optimum maturity and pulp colour is a dark yellow/green. Mean fruit size is 90mm x 26mm. It is a mid to late season variety but bears fruit all year round.
Lime - Kaffir
Native to Indonesia but widely grown worldwide as a backyard shrub for its aromatic leaves that add a unique flavour to Thai cooking. Well suited to container growing. The rough bumpy fruit is inedible but its oil has strong insecticidal properties.
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A long narrow fruit with thin skin that ranges in colour from green, yellow, purple and red. The fruit contains an acid juice similar to that of a lime. A delicate rainforest tree that offers a distinctive citrus flavour to sweet or savoury dishes. The juicy cells, similar in appearance to caviar, are a delightful surprise in salad dressings. A rainforest tree that naturally occurs as an understorey tree in SE