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kentiopsis
07-30-2014, 07:02 PM
Found this site (Citrus Pages / Lemons (http://users.kymp.net/citruspages/lemons.html#meyerii)) yesterday while researching a lemon called Colla Giant that David Fairchild found on Corfu. If anything knows anything about this variety, I'd like to hear about it. It was distributed in the US, but could be hiding under a different name by now. Fruit can weigh 2lb, according to Fairchild. This website features many other citrus, and I thought that lots of banana people would also be interested in it.
Nicolas Naranja
07-30-2014, 11:16 PM
Is it different than "Ponderosa"
kentiopsis
07-31-2014, 07:00 PM
Could have been renamed Ponderosa by American nurserymen or grpwers. Fairchild found it in 1901 or so. Concerning mangoes, he complained that our language and culture would have been enriched if growers had not changed the original Indian names for the mangoes he sent to the States. And many people know that the ubiquitous "areca palm" is not an Areca (the genus of the betel nut palm) at all, but a Dypsis. So this habit of nurserymen and growers of renaming things is an old one—probably goes back 5,000+ years, if I know humans any.
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