Australia has a history of sometimes collecting varieties from other countries, renaming them, and selling them like local varieties. They have done that with pomegranates, at the very least. I suppose that could have happened with the ‘Eureka’ lemon as well.
Huh? both myself and the Australian website I linked clearly cited Eureka as an Italian variety.
Some sellers rename varieties with silly cute marketing names which is pretty annoying. Especially for things like tomatoes and strawberries or any dwarf varieties.
Everyone seems to agree that Eureka was imported from Italy to California, yet it appears to be argued where in Italy it started out in, Sicily or the Amalfi coast, when people in Australia import things and renames them like they are local varieties they never hide their origins, they are honest about that. ‘Eureka’ does not sound like an Italian name to me.
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According to Google horticulturalist Thomas Andrew Garey of California named the Eureka lemon.
"Though it was developed from the seed of a Sicilian lemon, imported about 1858, it was Garey who, beginning its propagation in 1877-78, disseminated it first as “Garey’s Eureka.”
Re: the Amalfi lemons,
“The Amalfi Coast’s lemon, also known as “Sfusato Amalfitano”, is an Italian IGP product (protected Geographical Indication). It is exclusively produced in the towns of the Amalfi Coast.”
I know a lot about the ‘Sfusato Amalfitano’, there is way more information about that one than any other lemon, and I find it to be the most interesting lemon, that lemon variety can be owned outside of the Amalfi coast, and the fruit can be grown outside of the Amalfi coast, just as long as the protected name is not used, and just as long as you don’t claim that the lemons are being grown in the Amalfi coast, the protected name is ‘Limone Costa d’Amalfi’, the reason for the protection, is to make sure that counterfeit lemons, are not harming the reputation of the real growers with lower quality fruit. Here is my very own description of the variety, which will continue to be updated as I learn more about it, I have already sorted out a lot of misinformation about it
https://www.foodplace.info/Bountiful_Figs/viewtopic.php?id=78
I found some very small Eureka or Panache on my terrace this morning. You can see the striation already.
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