page_title: Australian lime
section_title: Cultivars
hierarchical_section_title: Australian lime / Species from Australia / Cultivars
caption_attribution_description: English: CSIRO Plant Industry and Australian Native Produce Industries, a company that grows and sells Australian native food, have developed plantations of new lime varieties bred from native limes. The new varieties include the Blood Lime, a cross between a mandarin and a Finger Lime and characterised by its blood red rind, flesh and juice; the Sunrise Lime, a pear shaped orange fruit that makes an excellent marmalade; and the Outback Lime, a cultivar of the Desert Lime with small green, juicy fruits which ripen at Christmas time.
context_page_description: Australian limes are species of the plant genus Citrus that are native to Australia and Papua New Guinea.
  These species were formerly included in the genera Microcitrus and Eremocitrus. They have been used as a food source by indigenous Australians as well as early settlers and are used in modern Australian cuisine, including marmalade and sauces.
  Species include:
context_section_description: A number of cultivars have been developed in recent years. These can be grafted on to standard citrus rootstocks.  They may be grown as ornamental trees in the garden or in containers.
  Grafted standards are available for some varieties. The cultivars include:
  'Australian Outback' (or 'Australian Desert'), developed from several desert lime varieties
  'Australian Red Centre' (or 'Australian Blood' or Blood Lime), a cross of finger lime and a mandarin-lemon or mandarin-sweet orange hybrid
  'Australian Sunrise', a hybrid cross of finger lime and a calomondin which is pear shaped and orange inside
  'Rainforest Pearl', a pink-fruited form of finger lime from Bangalow, New South Wales
  'Sunrise Lime ', parentage unknown
  'Outback Lime', a desert lime cultivar
caption: Blood Lime (biggest, red), Sunrise Lime (orange, pear-shaped) and the Outback Lime, a small, green cultivar of the desert lime
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