Lemon
ನಿಂಬೆनीबूஎலுமிச்சை
Citrus × limon (L.) Osbeck
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 4.6 m
- wide
- 3.8 m
Rutaceae
Also called Bergamot Orange, Limetta, Sweet Lime, Sweet Lemon, Chinese Lemon
Formerly Citrus × adami, Citrus × aurata, Citrus × bergamia, Citrus × bergamota, and 11 more
When it flowers
Flowers January to September in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- As a cultigen derived from artificial hybrids.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 3.0 m to 6.1 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 3.0 m to 4.6 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, red, purpleRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
African irisFlowers October to December, when this does not
African marigoldFlowers October to December, when this does not
Bird of paradiseFlowers October to December, when this does not
Cape leadwortFlowers October to December, when this does not
ChiaFlowers October to December, when this does not
Creeping WoodsorrelFlowers October to December, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- Portuguese
- Limão, Limoeiro, Lima
- Chinese
- 檸檬, 黎檬
- Hawaiian
- Lemi
- Spanish
- Limonero, Naranja bergamota, Lima
- Italian
- Limone, Bergamotto, Limone Meyer
- Estonian
- harilik sidrunipuu
- Finnish
- mehusitruuna, sitruuna
- Japanese
- レモン, ベルガモット
- Czech
- limeta
- Russian
- Лимон
- Catalan
- Llimoner
- root
- Limonka, libuung, hezh
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Citrus × limon (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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