Lemonade fruit (photo courtesy Daleys Fruit Tree Nursery - daleysfruit.com.au)
Lemonade
Citrus meyeri x limon
Rutaceae family
Grafted
The Lemonade is a cross between a Lemon and a Mandarin.
It produces a round fruit that turns from green to yellow as it ripens and can be peeled and eaten in segments fresh from the tree. They are refreshing and tangy and sweet, and when juiced the Lemonade fruit make a wonderful summer drink. Add to your favourite cocktail, or to tonic or soda water for a sweeter twist than the traditional lemon or lime.
The tree is vigorous and produces large volumes of fruit, sometimes fruiting several times a year.
Tree Maintenance (Citrus)
Citrus meyeri x limon
Rutaceae family
Grafted
The Lemonade is a cross between a Lemon and a Mandarin.
It produces a round fruit that turns from green to yellow as it ripens and can be peeled and eaten in segments fresh from the tree. They are refreshing and tangy and sweet, and when juiced the Lemonade fruit make a wonderful summer drink. Add to your favourite cocktail, or to tonic or soda water for a sweeter twist than the traditional lemon or lime.
The tree is vigorous and produces large volumes of fruit, sometimes fruiting several times a year.
Tree Maintenance (Citrus)
- Fertilise once in each season (4 times a year, citrus are hungry feeders!) but avoid applying while trees are preparing to flower, flowering and up until fruit are larger than marbles.
- During establishment, water slow and deep each fortnight, more often if very dry or hot. As it matures, the tree will become more drought tolerant.
- Watering may be needed when young fruit is forming.
- Keep soil well mulched, leaving a gap around the trunk to avoid collar rot.
- Do not prune the whole tree at once, or it will not produce fruit the following season. Prune after fruiting to keep it healthy and shaped. Remove dead, inward facing or crossing branches. Remove any suckers from the rootstock below the graft.
- Spray with horticultural oil if sap-sucking insects or scale occur (avoid spraying on days where temperatures may reach above 30°C, or foliage can become burnt). Black sooty mold on the leaves is a symptom of these pests; ants are also an indicator that there is a problem, as ants will farm and protect the insects in order to consume their sweet secretions.
Lemonade at LCG January 2025 (photo credit: Jacqui Lachmann)
Lemonade Tree at LCG October 2023 (photo credit: Graham Bond)
