Cultivated in homesteads The fruit is edible and is used to make jam and pickles. The fruit is also used to combat seasickness, pulmonary troubles, intestinal ailments and scurvey. The essential oil obtained from the rind is LAPANAJUS regarded as an antibiotic. The fruit juice, w
Aurantium medicum (L.) M. Gomez, Citrus fragrans Salisb.
description
Shrubs to small trees, glabrous; spines axillary, stout, sharp, ca. 3.5 cm long. Leaves alternate, simple, variable, × 10-18 3-9 cm, obtuse at base, crenate at margin, acute at apex, glabrous; petioles 8-10 mm long, not winged or jointed above. Inflorescences axillary racemes, few- flowered. Flowers bisexual and male. Calyx urceolate, 4-lobed; lobes ca. 3.5 mm long. × Petals 4, oblong, 2-4 0.5-1 cm, purplish. Stamens 35-40; filaments polyadelphous, short-pubescent, white; anthers linear, 4.5-5 × mm long, yellowish. Ovary cylindric, ca. 8 4 mm, 12-loculed; style cylindric, 10-15 mm long, purplish; stigma globose, sticky. Fruits × ovoid-oblong, 10-20 6-14 cm, yellowish; × seeds numerous, ca. 10 5 mm, smooth.
native range
Southeast Asia especially sub-himalayan region of North-Eastern India
distribution
Introduced and cultivated widely in the tropics and subtropics