Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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)
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