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Otaheite Rangpur Limes

Like Rangpur Limes, Otaheite Rangpur Limes have orange skin and are orange inside. They are classed as a “Mandarin Lime.”

The fruit has no sourness though, but it does smell and taste faintly like lime. In fact, the flavour is so faint, that it’s largely just grown as a houseplant. The tree doesn’t grow very tall, so it is treated as a miniature ornamental. The tree is thornless and produces purple flowers whose great fragrance is, alas, not a promise of things to come.

The fruit has 7 to 10 segments inside, and is either seedless or will have just a few small seeds.

History Notes

Otaheite is an island discovered by Captain James Cook in 1769 (then still just a lieutenant). You may know the island by another name — Tahiti.

This page first published: Sep 11, 2004 · Updated: Jun 16, 2018.

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