Meyer
Variety of Lemon · Citrus x limon
Mild, sweet-aromatic hybrid lemon with thin skin – the favourite for pots and gourmets.
Also known as: Improved Meyer, Meyer Lemon
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Taste & characteristics
Taste
sourjuicysweetfloralaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- vermutlich Zitrone x Mandarine/Orange (Hybride)
- Breeder
- Frank N. Meyer (Einführung in die USA)
- Pollination
- self-fertile
- Fruit weight
- 100 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Rounded, orange-yellow fruit with thin smooth skin, very juicy, less acidic and pleasantly aromatic flesh with some seeds.
Growth
Small, bushy, nearly thornless and relatively cold-tolerant tree – excellent for container culture.
Yield
Very early and heavy bearing, often while still young; main ripening in winter.
Notes
Not a true lemon but a hybrid; the virus-free 'Improved Meyer' selection replaced the old tristeza-infected line.
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