Rutaceae week: Assam lemon ? at Mizoram

[Prashant Awale]

Dear friends,
Came across this Citron Sp. at Mizoram. Locals were calling it as "Assam Lemon".

Bot. name: Citrus ..?
Family: Rutaceae
Date/Time: 09-11-2008 / 01:22PM
Location: Ailang, Mizoram
Habitat: Had seen this in Wild as well as Planted near a house.
Plant Habit: Tree almost 3.5 m high

Earlier, in one of the discussion this was identified as Citrus longilimon Tanaka.
Thanks
regards
Prashant

[OZmic]

If these are the flowers of C. longilimon, these are the non-Indian names for it:
Citrus longilimon Tanaka
CHINESE :     阿萨姆柠檬　A sa mu ning meng.

ENGLISH : Assam lemon, Long-fruited lemon, Oblong lemon.

FRENCH : Citron des Indes à fruit long.

JAPANESE :  　アッサムレモン  Assamu remon.

VIETNAMESE :  Chanh Assam, Chanh quả dài.

What are the names from India ??

[Gurcharan Singh]

Yes Prashant ji and Mr. Porcher

This plant has been well discussed on our group after Vijayasankar uploaded it in 2010:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/indiantreepix/Assam$20lemon/indiantreepix/z9wFVm6MmCs/BEfBQtRkswwJ

Here is my note from that:

"Vijayasankar ji and Tabish ji

Assam lemon, characterised by its long fruits (distinctinctly longer than broad) have been named as C. limon at many websites, and as C. medica in many websites. It should not look strange firstly because taxonomy of Citrus is very confusing, secondly many authors consider C. limon as var. or subsp. of C. medica, and as such those not going below species level would simply call it C. medica. Plus C. longilimon (character is in the name itself) is comparatively recently established species, not known to me. NMPMD database is generally well researched, and it is from here as well photographs of Assam lemon at various websites that C. longilimon appears to be the most logical name. Plus GRIN also recognises it as distinct species.

  C. limon is generally differentiated from C. medica by much thinner and smoother rind. Let us try to find out other differentiating features (in addition to longer fruit) of C. longilimon to arrive at final conclusion."

Before that Prashant ji had also uploaded the plant:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/indiantreepix/Assam$20lemon/indiantreepix/WxQMuvSa0Sk/FUgDXp9leyoJ

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[Prashant Awale]

Thanks Gurcharan Singh ji for sharing the earlier links.  Thanks Mic for your response.
Regards
Prashant

[JM Garg]

Taking it as Citrus × limon (L.) Osbeck, as per details herein.

[Suneel Sharma]

Assam lemon cv. is famous in the world for special qualities. Thanks and 

Regards......prof. suneel

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[J.M. Garg]

Thanks, Suneel ji

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