While we were wandering around Snug Harbor, and I was chasing Seth, I found something weird.

[conuly]

It's some sort of citrus fruit. There were tons lying all around the ground, they'd fallen off a tree. So it's a citrus fruit that can grow in New York. It's kinda fuzzy, about the size of a golf ball. I took two of them home to see if anybody could ID them. When cut open, it smells kinda like a lemon (I and 'dul think) or kinda flowery (Jenn thinks), but not at all sour or sharp like a lemon does. Jenn now says it's like a slightly soured/bad orange. Which may mean that the fruit itself is going a bit old, not that this is what it's supposed to smell like.

The brown in the picture is part of the peel, probably age.



So, can anybody help me out here?

Edit: So, all the things youse guys are suggesting grow this far north? Really? Cool.

Comments

[snale.livejournal.com]

It looks like it could be a meyer lemon (http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/lemon.html).

[literalgirl.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Might be an overripe Sadachi (sp!) Japanese lime. We have a tree of these and after they are over-ripe they turn yellow and age like that. Although they also kind of swell up and it seems to me they are slightly bigger than the sample you show in your photo. :-)

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

It does look like a really ripe lime & your description of the smell sounds accurate, too but I've never seen a lime with seeds.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

You haven't? When I buy limes from the grocery store, they do occasionally have seeds in them, just as even the "seedless" Satsuma mandarins have seeds sometimes.

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

Honestly, no & I'm a lime fanatic-- even have my own tree.

Maybe its just the varieties available here. *shrugs*

[conuly]

I have, all the time.

Anyway, seedless limes aren't inherently seedless, I think. They're artificially propmted to maturity.

[moroveus.livejournal.com]

It's the Pod People. If you let it incubate, a conuly clone will spring forth.

[ruthanolis.livejournal.com]

I'd say it was just an old lemon or orange actually ... The navel oranges over here do similar sorts of things when they drop. And the orange peels go nice and brown after a few weeks of "sunburn".
Actually, they can do that in the fridge as well ... =\

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

Taste and see? ;)

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

*in response to your edit*
I'm not sure but was the tree growing in a warm, sheltered position near a brick wall or something else that radiates warmth? Microclimate. :-)
Also, there are often cold-climate versions of traditionally warm-climate fruit trees just as there are tropical apple trees.

[snale.livejournal.com]

It looks like it could be a meyer lemon (http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/lemon.html).

[literalgirl.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Might be an overripe Sadachi (sp!) Japanese lime. We have a tree of these and after they are over-ripe they turn yellow and age like that. Although they also kind of swell up and it seems to me they are slightly bigger than the sample you show in your photo. :-)

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

It does look like a really ripe lime & your description of the smell sounds accurate, too but I've never seen a lime with seeds.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

You haven't? When I buy limes from the grocery store, they do occasionally have seeds in them, just as even the "seedless" Satsuma mandarins have seeds sometimes.

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

Honestly, no & I'm a lime fanatic-- even have my own tree.

Maybe its just the varieties available here. *shrugs*

[conuly]

I have, all the time.

Anyway, seedless limes aren't inherently seedless, I think. They're artificially propmted to maturity.

[moroveus.livejournal.com]

It's the Pod People. If you let it incubate, a conuly clone will spring forth.

[ruthanolis.livejournal.com]

I'd say it was just an old lemon or orange actually ... The navel oranges over here do similar sorts of things when they drop. And the orange peels go nice and brown after a few weeks of "sunburn".
Actually, they can do that in the fridge as well ... =\

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

Taste and see? ;)

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

*in response to your edit*
I'm not sure but was the tree growing in a warm, sheltered position near a brick wall or something else that radiates warmth? Microclimate. :-)
Also, there are often cold-climate versions of traditionally warm-climate fruit trees just as there are tropical apple trees.