Giant Key lime

Citrus aurantifolia (Christm.) Swingle

CRC 4069
PI 654857
VI 590

Source

Received as budwood from Winterhaven, Florida, 2000.

Parentage/origins

Spontaneous autotetraploid selected from seedling population of diploid Key lime in 1973 by HC Barrett, US Horticultural Research Laboratory, Orlando.

Rootstocks of accession

Citrus macrophylla, Schaub Rough lemon

Season of ripeness at Riverside

September to November

Notes and observations

RRK, 8/2006: This is said to have wood pocket. Spontaneous autotetraploid selected from seedling population of diploid Key lime in 1973 by HC Barrett, US Horticultural Research Laboratory, Orlando. Fruit are more than twice as large as ordinary diploid key lime but have true key lime flavor and aroma. Suggested as a containerized ornamental by developer.