Re: Finger Lime
I am growing finger lime successfully. In fact, I have more of the fruit than I know what to do with (most recipes are with seafood which I don't eat).
The fruit itself is lime-like in flavor with turpentine undertones. Removing the vesicles from the fruit has been a very sticky experience from me. The fruit are on the dry side and this seems to make the flesh stickier than other varieties.
Even the small fruit have hundreds of the vesicles which do an amazing job of not bursting open while being removed. There are very few seeds, in the 5 fruit I opened one day there were 2 potentially viable seeds.
The tree itself is very ornamental: very small white flowers and leaves on long branches. The fruit look almost out of place because they are so large in comparison to the foliage.
Here in California (or online) Four Winds is a great source for Finger Limes if you want to grow one.
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