Who is growing “round” or oblong Citron (C. medica) for fruit or peel?
This plant is significant to cultures in western Europe, western Asia, and eastern Asia.
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I am. It’s a beautifull fruit and very aromatic. I use it on juices because it looks dry but it isn’t and my slow juicer can take juice from it. You can make tea or sugar candy.
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Are you growing any of the round or oblong cultivars?
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No… i don’t have those here.
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Where I live there is a lot of buddah’s hand. I don’t grow it because my butcher gives them to me. I make lemon candy from them. I have not seen round or oblong. As you kniwvwe have a lot of citrus here.
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Can you please show pictures of these varieties please .
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Like this?
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No, she meant pictures of the other types, which was what Richard started this thread to discuss.
The classic “etrog” used in Jewish tradition is one such example:
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Oh ok, but that’s not Buddha’s hand. Etrog is diamond lemon…
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Richard specifically was asking about cultivars of citron other than Buddha’s hand. I’m not clear on whether “etrog” is a particular cultivar or landrace of citron, or just the Hebrew word for “citron,” but it is a citron (C. medica), just like Buddha’s hand.
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Someone created a very good page on Wikipedia, although the millennia old medicinal use in east Asia is missing.
See the Gallery.
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Refreshingly so. There’s so much useless fluff on the Internet about such and such a plant’s medicine usage, not to mention all the actively harmful information, it’s nice to see places unblighted by folksy yarns about traditional medicine.
The brief section about supposed medical benefits, with a link to the page on traditional medicine, and a quite note on the essential oil and vitamin content, is to my mind pretty exemplary for what a good wiki article should look like.
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@a_Vivaldi
The page is organized into sections that a reader must click on to see. Consequently the page already meets your wishes.
At the same time, ethnobiology is very useful for understanding what species existed and/or were cultivated in different parts of the world. As for the use of the plant, I often see “The villagers believed …”.
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I suspect I was already aware of the fact Wikipedia articles have sections, but I guess a reminder never hurts.
Fair point about ethnobotany. Regardless of the soundness of folk wisdom or indigenous knowledge, just knowing that certain people believed something about some fruit at some time is all kinds of useful, even in seemingly unrelated pursuits such as cataloguing cultivars. Just how much of that information is appropriate for a Wikipedia article is of course a different matter.
But anyway, we’re probably getting off-topic.
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Maybe don’t assume I’m trying to be hurtful?
I said “regardless of the soundness.” That means “without going into if it is sound or unsound.” It’s an entirely neutral statement.
But now we’re getting very off topic.
Dear Richard after a bit of research, they are called Etrogs. The trees are sold in nurseries in LA and San Diego. They are used in the Jewish celebration of Sukkot. There are special silver boxes made for them. Thought to be from Egypt originally. MrsG. Also, the open markets during that holiday sell them off of the tree.
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Yes, Etrog is one of them. There are several more as detailed in the Wikipedia article. I grew up with many of them in yards of my home town. Two decades ago I studied them further at the UC Citrus variety reserve, then sold 5 “round” cultivars plus Buddha’s hand in my nursery operation.
Perhaps one of our infrequent members is growing them.
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