Lime 'Tahitian'
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Lime 'Tahitian'

Citrus aurantiifolia 'Tahitian'

This is the most popular commercial 'supermarket' lime - and rightly so. It has a good tolerance to cold (but not frost) and produces hefty crops of flavoursome limes - sometimes seeded, sometimes seedless.

Limes are traditionally eaten un-ripe when green - but if you allow them to ripen to a delicate yellow orange colour they will exhibit all the flavour without being quite so 'sharp'.

Can be grown outside through the Spring and Summer months but needs frost protection (a minimum of 5°C and ideally 10°C or higher).

Supplied as a grafted tree - bushy and approximately 2ft tall.

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