Trees & Plants

Wild lemon

Bodu lunboa

Citrus medica L.

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

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uses: 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, which has a high content of Vitamin C, is used as an anthelmintic, appetizer, tonic, .P/OAF in cough, rheumatism, flatulence, vomiting M. at × 4 ©
family: Rutaceae
synonym: 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
english names: Wild lemon · Citron
flowering fruiting: March – October
occurrence maldives: Cultivated in homesteads