Eremocitrus

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Scientific Names


ACCORDING TO WIKIPEDIA: "Microcitrus and Eremocitrus , should be included in Citrus; most botanists now classify Microcitrus and Eremocitrus as part of the genus Citrus"

Read about Eremocitrus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Eremocitrus (Greek, desert and Citrus). Rutaceae, tribe Citreae. Australian Desert Kumquat. Spiny shrub or small tree: lvs. small, simple or emarginate, thick and leathery, alike on both sides; spines single, long, slender, axillary: fls. small, 4- (rarely 3- or5-) merous, white, fragrant, borne singly, or 2 or 3 together in the axils of the lvs.; stamens free, 4 times as numerous as the petals: frs. small, subglobose, oblate or pyriform, yellow, with a thin fleshy peel like that of a lime, 4- (rarely 3-5-) celled with 1 or 2 seeds in each cell; cells containing stalked subglobose pulp-vesicles filled with a pleasant acid juice.—Only 1 species of this subtropical Australian genus is known. CH


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