🌿 Botanical Name
Citrus aurantifolia
👨‍👩‍👦 Family
Rutaceae
🗣️ Vernacular Names
Lemon, Cherunaregam.
🌼 Flowering – Fruiting
Throughout the year.
🌍 Distribution
Tropics and warm, humid subtropical regions.
💡 Status
Not available.

Description: Small tree with short stiff sharp spines. Leaves unifoliolate, elliptic to oblong-ovate, petioles narrowly winged. Flowers white, axillary. Fruit small, globose to ovoid, greenish yellow hesperidium.

Uses: Cultivated for heir fruits. Fruits used mainly in the preparation of pickles and beverages.