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Sylvain:
A new search for Citrus Pages:
A lemon from Bangladesh called "Jara lebu" wich means  Jara lemon. We are looking for any information and mainly it's place in the classification.

« Helo,

Thanks for your website I have been using a lot.

I wonder if you can help to identify a citrus.
It is popular in Bangladesh and they call it jara lebu.
As for the scientific name I haven't found much information regarding it and what I found seems to be contradictory.

It is sold green and ripens to lemon yellow in storage. It has a very strong scent of maybe lemon and lime combined with cloves. One of these fruits perfume a room for days.

The pulp is rather dry, and the juice is like very sour lemon.

Please find some pictures attached.

Kind regards, »











SoCal2warm:
Looks like it might be related to kaffir lime.

You might look up Citrus macroptera.
subvariety annamensis

https://www.kaveyeats.com/2011/02/bangladeshi-shatkora-citrus-candied.html


--- Quote --- A cultivar of C. macroptera var. annamensis known as 'Sat Kara', is grown primarily in the Sylhet division of northeastern Bangladesh where it is called "hatkora" or "shatkora"
 
--- End quote ---
http://truelybangladesh.blogspot.com/2013/03/shatkora-popular-recipe.html?m=1

The oils in the peels are very fragrant and exported for use in perfume.

SoCal2warm:
One more thing, I'm not sure how hardy "Jara lemon" is specifically, but kaffir lime is a lot hardier than regular limes and can grow in zone 9.

(kaffir lime is not a true lime, kaffir is descended from the species C. latipes whereas limes are descended from the species C. micrantha, although both species are classified under papedas. In the specific case of "Jara lemon" it seems its genetic composition is probably a mix of sour orange and C. hystrix, or perhaps from C. latipes more directly.)

Radoslav:

To me it looks closer to citrus medica than citrus limon, or citrus latifolia etc. I put it in group citrus limonimedica.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekthb_gjf3k

Sylvain:
SoCal2warm, everything you said is wrong. Do you even know what macroptera means? Very winged petiole.
As the pictures and movies show, the leaves are like lemon/citron. so it cannot be kaffir lime, or macroptera!

Citrus Pages is a serious site. I don't look for answers like "it might be", "it seems", "is probably", "or perhaps".
My question is: Is there someone who knows the classification of Jara lebu?

We usually use the petiole to differentiate lemons and citrons. Lemons leaves are articulated, citrons leaves are not.
On the pictures and videos it seams the leaves are not articulated but it is hard to be sure.

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