Thanks Raghu ji You seem to have hunted out the real plant Citrus aurantifolia (unless I am wrong). It is often confused with medica, because the nimbu I saw in most private houses in different parts of India mostly turns out to be Citrus medica. Perhaps the crucial difference is larger flowers, usually larger fruit mostly rough on surface in C. medica, but the crucial difference is that rind of C. medica is much thicker (almost 5 mm or more), whereas in C. aurantifolia (as also in C. limon, which has oblong fruit maturing orange yellow) the rind is thinner, barely 2-4 mm.
-- Dr. Gurcharan Singh Retired Associate Professor SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 9:05 AM, raghu ananth <[email protected]> wrote: > Rutaceae week: CItrus aurantium from Chandagal > > 29 Nov 2009 > Vernacular : > - Herale Kai, > - Herali Kai, > - Illi Kai > > I was quite surprised to find four different Citrus fruit trees in one of > my friend's small backyard garden. > (Photo date - 29 Nov 2009, Chandagal Village, Mysore district, .) > They consider each one of them as a different variety (Names in Kannada - > *Chikkilli *(very small), *Daggilli *(large kind),* Illi*-normal-type 1,* > Illi*-normal-type 2 with warty ). > > Back at home, I gave them to my mother and requested her to make pickles > out of them -a* Mixed citrus pickles*! They tasted good and there were no > complaints. Last month, I had a kind of typhoid which lasted several > weeks. Nothing tastes good during a fever. But the *ganji *( gruel made > of rice) served with these pickles tasted divine - I managed to swallow a > good many mouth fulls of that gruel thanks to the pickle! > > Will post and request the individual fruiting trees for > identification/confirmation soon. > > Regards > Raghu Ananth > >
