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Citrus ×volkameriana
Also called Lemon, Canton Lemon, Chinese Dwarf Lemon, Meyer Lemon, Otaheite Orange, Rangpur Lime, Balotin Bergamot
A citrus hybrid (mandarin by citron) grown for its moderately large, seedy, yellow-orange fruit, which is acidic and slightly bitter; it is also widely used as a disease-resistant rootstock for other citrus.
Volkamer lemon (Citrus volkameriana), often misspelled Volckamer lemon, is a Citrus hybrid cultivated for its edible fruit. The specific epithet (volkameriana) honors German botanist Johann Christoph Volkamer. It is a taxonomical synonym of Citrus limon.
It is known as 沃 尔卡默柠檬 (wo er ka mo ning meng) in Chinese, citron de Volkamer in French, limone Volkameriano in Italian, and chanh Volkamer in Vietnamese.
It likely originated in Italy and is most widely grown in the United States and Europe, and to a smaller extent in eastern Asia.
It has been cultivated for three centuries and is used as a rootstock for other Citrus cultivars because of its resistance to many diseases that affect members of the genus Citrus.
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