Lemon yellow (Exp.) EO
Origin: Italy

• Details and product description

  Introduction:

  According to Swingle, lemon is a hybrid of Citrus medica L. and Citrus aurantifolia Swingle. Lemon trees are small and thorny trees, 3 to 5 m high. Leaves are oval, large and light green-coloured, with a leafstalk simply margined. Young sprouts are crimson coloured, and floral buds are white inside, crimson outside. The scented flowers are hermaphrodite and are pollinated by insects. So, the plant is self- fertile. There are many fruits (1,500 to 2,000 in an adult tree) yellow-coloured and ovoid, with a thin, juicy and acid pulp. Fruits coexist with flowers on the same tree.

  History:

  Citrus were used in Asia for a long time before the species were transported westward to become part of ancient cultures in Mesopotamia (4000 B.C.), Egypt and Greece. Citrus medica var. ethrog was described in the Bible from 200 B.C. The Jews were introduced to this fruit in Babylonia during their exile there, in the Fifth century B.C., and they carried it back to Palestine thereafter. Moreover, lemon was carried by the Moslem migration through northern Africa to Spain during the Middle Ages. In the Xth century, Crusaders brought back citrus from Palestine and Egypt, but for a long time, it was used only as moth repellent and poison antidote. Christopher Columbus introduced lemon seeds to the Americas during his voyages of discovery. Citrus arrived in Florida before 1565, but only became an important industry after Florida ceded from Spain in 1821. Lemon is derived from a Hindustani word that was translated into Arabic as limun . Fashionable ladies used Lemon juice as a way to redden their lips during the European Renaissance.

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