Jan. 27 ,1933 
Citrangequats and Limequats 
237 
The indications are from the few trees that are in bearing in Florida 
that it will prove more or less everbearing, following the lime parent in 
this regard. No doubt its fruiting season can be influenced by methods 
of fertilization and pruning. Selection of budwood from early or 
summer-bearing trees will also be desirable. 
The limequat promises to become a valuable addition to our list of 
citrous fruits. Since the original cross pollination resulting in this new 
fruit was made at Eustis, Fla., a well-known Citrus-producing center, 
it is proposed to name this hybrid the “Eustis limequat.” 
TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION OF EUSTIS LIMEQUAT 
Fruit oval (occasionally nearly spherical) slightly asymmetrical, mature fruits 
having a long diameter averaging i $4 to 1]/% inches, diameter in cross section, i l /i to 
inches; calyx persistent; color light yellow (“picric yellow”) 11 ; rind thin, 
inch, very smooth and glossy, translucent; oil cells spherical, rather prominent, 
having no bitter flavor; segments 6 to 9; seeds 5 to 12, usually averaging 1 to the segment, 
small to medium size, % to inch in length; pulp of light greenish color, closely 
resembling lime, tender and juicy, flavor sharply acid (like the lime the fruit can be 
used when full sized but not fully colored); tree evergreen, vigorous, having a tendency 
to produce long shoots which bend downward with the weight of the fruit; resembles 
the lime in producing a succession of crops, though not so markedly everbearing; 
spines on bearing twigs very small, not injuring the fruit; flowers 5-petaled, pure white 
(not streaked with pink as those of the lime and of most other limequats); leaves 
unifoliate, rather thick, dark green above, lighter below, tapering at both base and 
apex, 2 to 3 inches long, slightly folded along the midrib, having short, narrow petioles, 
closely resembling leaves of the round kumquat except for larger size. 
OTHER LIMEQUATS 
In addition to the Eustis limequat, some 28 other hybrids were made 
by the senior author in 1909 between the West India lime and the 
kumquat. Twenty-four of these, like the Eustis, are hybrids of the 
West India lime and the round kumquat; four are hybrids of the West 
India lime and the oval kumquat. Only about one-third of these have 
been studied in detail, but several of them are being grown in Florida 
and other Southern States. Perhaps the most promising of these is a 
limequat (C. P. B. 48786) of the same parentage as the Eustis; that is 
another cross between the same two parent trees. This is the largest 
limequat yet produced, sometimes equaling a small lemon in size, usually 
being about 1% inches in diameter and 2% inches long. The fruits, 
bright yellow when ripe, have a very pale pulp of a pleasant acid flavor, 
similar to the Mexican lime, the skin is very thin but tough and of a 
mild flavor. There are from two to nine seeds in a fruit. 
This limequat has done particularly well in the garden of Hon. H. J. 
Drane at Lakeland, Fla., and as it is likely to be propagated more or 
less it seems desirable to give it a name. It is accordingly called the 
Lakeland limequat (PI. 5, A). 12 
Another limequat that has attracted much favorable notice is C. P. B. 
No. 48792. This is a hybrid of the Mexican lime with the oval kumquat, 
11 Ridgway, Robert, op. err., pi. IV, d 23. 
12 Technical description of lakeland limequat: Fruits very smooth, attractive in appearance, 
oval, average 3% inches long iH inches in diameter; calyx not persistent; color Strontian yellow (Ridgway; 
Robert, op. cit., pi. XVI, 23); rind very thin, smooth, sweet and edible like that of kumquat; oil cells 
large and prominent, transparent, showing through the rind, segments 5 to 8, seeds 2 to 9, large and oval, 
usually about 6; pulp pale, massicot yellow (Ridgway, Robert, op. cit., pi. XVI, f, 21), resembling 
lime; very juicy, sharply acid, that of lime; good before fruit is fully colored; leaves 2 % to 3 inches in length; 
evergreen, unifoliate, lanceolate acuminate, petiole short, very narrowiy winged; tree vigorous, bearing 
wood nearly spineless. 
