What lemon is this?

Tom says...
They look like ugli fruits (Citrus ×tangelo) to me; but they're certainly the cleanest, shiniest specimens of uglis I've ever seen if they are that.

Mike says...
The form depends alot on climate.My minneolas were as big as grapefruit,had a navel,no prominance and was green with a yellow hint when ripe.It could be a rootstock or might have citron in it.

Xiem says...
Thank you Tom. I'm guessing I haven't got ugli fruit because yours have concave? derrieres whereas mine had protuberances or fingers at the base. I cut mine open and found they have no seeds. They were very tasteful; not sweet but not particularly sour. Not really juicy as either.

Brendan says...
This is my 'sweet lemon'. It's ridiculously sweet! I've tasted oranges more sour than this. Beware the skin tho, the acid actually burns my lips!
It's from my late mother's tree, and it is seed-grown and about 28 years old.

Anyone know what it could be? This one was 80mm diameter.

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Pauline says...
Yes, it looks like the fruit from my lemonade tree.

Mike says...
Brendan it looks like a sweet lemon to me and there are many odd types around including seedlings.Are the leaves very large,the plant smallish but broad and the flower petals quite purple on the outside before opening and very large?
My brother has a sweet rough skinned bush lemon that is a seedling.

MaryT says...
Brendan I don't believe your lemon is sweeter than an orange - you'd better send me one to prove it LOL Propagate!! Lemonade is a hybrid, so is yours it seems. What's in a name? But I guess you have the naming right to yours :)

MaryT says...
Yes, Brendan. The greenness is probably what confused me. My lemonade also has killer rind; that's why I thought it was what you had.

Brendan says...
Hi MaryT & Brian, I found this on the net:
The tree, (i.e.Lemonade) which produces sweet lemons with an edible skin, is a cross between a lemon, a mandarin and perhaps a lime.

See it says: "edible skin". The skin of my 'lemon' is inedible. The plot thickens! :-)

Read an account of the lemonade tree here: http://www.mandarintree.com.au/mandarin-tree-articles/1988/4/14/its-a-lemonade-tree-but-whose/

Brain says...
I am inclinded to say, none of the forum members here with lemonade tree (including myself) would say the lemonade lemon skin is edible by any stretch of imagination.

Anyway, thanks for the article, if the author written it in 1988 and said that the budwood is available 10 years ago, then chances are, the tree has been establised another 10 years prior. So, it adds to reason that the lemonade has been around in Aus since 1968. Or perhaps even longer.

can I humour you with a theory? As yours is a seedling plant, maybe it's a superior strain of the lemonade? For example, i read that the NZ grapefruit, is a superior strain of poorman's orange after 3 generations. Anyway, it sounds like you are onto a winner and so, can we humbly have some budwood/seeds? We'll name the tree after you ... Lemonade/sweet lemon var Brendan (like the Julie seville) :)

MaryT says...
Your pictures made my mouth water, Brendan. I'm sorry but the only proof we would accept is a box of fruit on our doorstep :) Seriously, what sort of proof is that? I think you might have to produce pictures of leaves at least and perhaps seeds.

MaryT says...
OK Brendan. You'd better start propagating this wonder fruit of yours so we can all have one :)

MaryT says...
No way is it a Seville, Amanda. Seville is sour and bitter.