Description
The giant Key lime (Citrus x aurantifolia) has fruit more than twice the size of standard key limes. With twice the juice, think of your pies, tarts, and fancy cocktails! The giant Key lime is an autrotetraploid discovered in 1973. Its double set of chromosomes is what gives these plants the vigour to produce such large fruit. Key limes are a highly desirable lime that form rounded fruits that are usually picked commercially while green but are ripe when they turn yellow. Key limes have a unique flavour with higher acidity, stronger aroma, a thinner rind, and more sweetness and bitterness than other limes. Outdoors in the warm months. Houseplant in winter where you should watch for spider mite and scale. All of our citrus are grafted onto C-35 citrange, trifoliate orange, or other semi-dwarfing rootstock which confer good hardiness and production while reducing overall tree size. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.
