Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Citrus x taitensis

Common name

Rough Lemon, Rangpur Lime, Wild Lemon, Bush Lemon

Family

Rutaceae

Where found

Rainforest margins, and along streams. Often persists around old habitations. Coast and ranges north of Berry.

Notes

Shrub or tree to about 6 m high. Branches with stiff, stout, paired spines 2.5–30 mm long at the bases of some leaves. Stems hairless. Leaves strongly lemon-scented when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 3.5–13 cm long, 20–70 mm wide, hairless and glossy, margins more or less entire to finely or coarsely scalloped, leaf stalks slightly winged or not winged, and with a joint. Flowers sweetly scented, white, sometimes with a pinkish tinge, to 35 mm in diameter, with 4-5 petals each about 10 mm long. Flowers single or in few-flowered clusters. Fruit yellow to orange-reddish, more or less round, 35–105 mm long, 35–65 mm in diameter. Fruits winter.

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Citrus~x+taitensis (accessed 7 January, 2021)