Villafranca

Variety of Lemon · Citrus x limon

Robust Eureka-type lemon that historically shaped Florida and the subtropics.

🇮🇹 Italy 1875

Taste & characteristics

sourjuicy

Given in thirds of a month (early / mid / late) for the northern hemisphere in a temperate climate; altitude and season shift them.

Medium, elliptical fruit with smooth rind and juicy acidic flesh with few seeds, very similar to 'Eureka'.

Vigorous, densely foliaged thorny tree, more thorny when young and largely thornless later.

Good, even yields with main ripening in winter.

Historically important in Florida and Australia; today largely replaced by 'Eureka'/'Lisbon'.

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