Kaffir Lime
കഫീർ ലൈംকাফির লেবু
Citrus hystrix DC.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 6.0 m
- wide
- 3.0 m
Rutaceae
Also called Porcupine Orange, Thai Bai Makrut
Formerly Citrus auraria, Citrus balincolong, Citrus boholensis, Citrus celebica, and 17 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- E. Himalaya to China (Yunnan, N. Guangxi) and Wallis I.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 6.0 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Spread
- 3.0 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (5)
- Chinese
- 树葫芦, 马蜂橙, 箭叶橙
- Simplified Chinese
- 石碌柑, 马蜂橙, 箭叶橙
- Slovenian
- kombava
- Bangla
- কাফির লেবু
- Malayalam
- കഫീർ ലൈം
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- 3D model: Citrus hystrix (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.