Already saw this citrus plant in Albania two years ago. Now when I went again I saw it again and picked some fruits. They look just like limes but smell like oranges and are orange inside. They have biggish round seeds. What plant is it? Can I eat it? And what‘s the best way to grow my own? I have so many questions
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Orange
Some variety of mandarin orange
Maybe Calamansi?
Bergamot orange
I think it is orange, we have orange trees like this where I’m from and they are surprisingly green for a long time on the tree. We often pull them still a little green or else the animals get them first
just mandarin orange.
the best way to grow your own, is to find the grafted plant of the variety of your choice from some stores (can be online).
if you have green fingers, you can grow the seed of these fruits to a plant and use the plant as stock. (orange seeds are not true to the type, so you can’t grow the same fruit tree with the seeds)
when this stock plant is big enough, you can get a small branch from the tree to graft on the stock plant you grow.
this way, you will have the identical fruit as this tree.
Unripe orange
Orange, quite possibly ripe, too.
Oranges need night temperatures to fall below a certain temperature to turn orange – but of course, if it’s warm, they ripen just the same. In warmer climates, it’s normal to have green oranges.
Dalandan?
It’s a mandarine or a clementine. But unripe. Don’t know in what part of the world you are, but in Europe they are ripe in late Autumn/Winter.
Maybe Dalandan?
Calamansi
I think that is a bitter orange tree. They are used in Yucatán cooking a lot.
Valencia
I believe this to be a calamondin aka calamansi.
Widely used in the Philippines when unripe/green
still orange
Looks like calamansi. I’ve never had it as a whole fruit, but the Korean market by my house sells delicious calamansi juice!
Thank you all so much for all the suggestions. I guess I have to go to Albania again in winter when the fruits are most likely to be ripe and see if they turn orange. Since all the suggestions were of fruits that were edible I tried a small piece and it has a sour orangey taste, maybe that really means it‘s unripe orange. But they are as small as a lime. Are oranges this small in September/October?
Natural oranges have green peels when the oranges are grown in warm climates
They’re unripe oranges. They ripen late November to December.
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In the Philippines, it could be Dalandan – a type of bitter orange (Citrus aurantium), or a Dalanghita (Citrus nobilis) .
Dalandan has a more sour and slightly bitter, sweet flavor, whereas dalanghita is sweeter and more suitable for juice. Dalandan typically has a rougher, more porous, and often green or red-orange peel, while dalanghita has a smoother peel and can be easier to peel.
Maybe Calamondins or other Hybrid
lemon very tart
Tangerine
Could be green tangerine?
Looks like a sweet lime!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_limetta
Citrus limetta, alternatively considered to be a cultivar of Citrus limon, C. limon ‘Limetta’,[1] is a species of citrus, commonly known as mousami, musami, mosambi, sweet lime, sweet lemon, and sweet limetta, it is a member of the sweet lemons. It is small and round like a common lime in shape.[2] It is a cross between the citron (Citrus medica) and a bitter orange (Citrus × aurantium).
MAP!
Rangpur lime?
It’s an orange. They are called green oranges in China and they are ripe right now.
Its sweet lime, very common in india, you also find oranges that are green by skin in india but this one is different.
Pomelo X mandarin cross
Looks like sweet lime to me. The fruit might be bigger than a calamansi and the juice would be a bit sharper.
They’re a sour orange… I used to have a tree of those in Sri Lanka and used them to make orange flavoured things 🙂
This is what oranges look like in Belize.
Did you see it near the mountains or near the coast? Perhaps Calamandin orange? It’s a cold-tolerant citrus.