A Field spotter's Guide to Australian Finger lime Cultivars

[starling1]

Emma




Byron Sunrise




Rick's red



Crimson tide



Purple Bliss



Sunshine Yellow



Judy's Everbearing/Rainforest Pearl



Alstonville



Red center Lime (Fingerlime x acid mandarin)



Collette



Mia rose



Chartreuse



Red Champagne



Crystal



Pink Ice



Desert lime (not fingerlime)

[Luisport]

WOW! Impressive!

[gunnar429]

These are so much farther along in Australia.  Here, we are lucky to get 2 types:  red finger and green finger. 

[Galka]

Wow. I got a Giant Finger from Brightleaf. Wish I could find Red.

[gunnar429]

Harris sells red finger lime as well as green, but nothing like what starling posted.

[starling1]

I might have some seeds to spare of Byron sunrise in a few months, but it depends how many hold on. I have promised two Brazilians seeds and they have priority.

[Soren]

Very impressive colors!

[Majime]

Thanks, very useful. I have a small "air rooted" Red rick, but it's really slow growing.

[gunnar429]

Wow. I got a Giant Finger from Brightleaf. Wish I could find Red.

It's weird that they describe it as "similar to australian finger lime."  Doesn't seem like it's a finger lime, at least not from Australia

[starling1]

Wow. I got a Giant Finger from Brightleaf. Wish I could find Red.

It's weird that they describe it as "similar to australian finger lime."  Doesn't seem like it's a finger lime, at least not from Australia

Gunnar there are quite few different types of native Australian Citrus. Not all of them have the finger shape. Some are round and small like traditional limes externally but have the same kind of 'Caviar' type pulp. Mt Tamborine lime is like this. I don't think it has been cultivated, certainly I have never seen an improved CV from the wild variety.

[Galka]

I might have some seeds to spare of Byron sunrise in a few months, but it depends how many hold on. I have promised two Brazilians seeds and they have priority.

I would be happy to have some.  Let me know if you get some extra seeds to spare. Round limes look cool too. I got some seeds last year and only 3 of them sprouted. Two survived and they are slow growing. Also I lost the tag and now have no idea what they are. Well, let's them grow bigger and give me some fruits. 

[Galka]

Harris sells red finger lime as well as green, but nothing like what starling posted.

Harris, huh? Good to know. Thanks

[starling1]

I might have some seeds to spare of Byron sunrise in a few months, but it depends how many hold on. I have promised two Brazilians seeds and they have priority.

I would be happy to have some.  Let me know if you get some extra seeds to spare. Round limes look cool too. I got some seeds last year and only 3 of them sprouted. Two survived and they are slow growing. Also I lost the tag and now have no idea what they are. Well, let's them grow bigger and give me some fruits. 

Round limes or desert limes have an interesting feature; they grow spines on the trunk until a certain a point and then stop. This is the maximum grazing height of kangaroos.

[Coconut]

Emma




Byron Sunrise



Fantastic Finger lime porn, do you have problems with leaf miners? Here in S.florida we have problems with these prolific insects if we dont use Monsanto products like the nurseries here to keep the leaves pristine, cankers and other unpleasant invaded were leaf miners tunnel and the plant become fodder for mulch heap. Are these australian natives more resistant to pest?

Jack

Rick's red



Crimson tide



Purple Bliss



Sunshine Yellow



Judy's Everbearing/Rainforest Pearl



Alstonville



Red center Lime (Fingerlime x acid mandarin)



Collette



Mia rose



Chartreuse



Red Champagne



Crystal



Pink Ice



Desert lime (not fingerlime)

[nullzero]

Coconut,

When I was growing a Australian finger lime in CA, it was untouched by leaf miners when the cara cara orange, key lime, and other citrus was affected by the pest.

[starling1]

Leaf miner will attack them, yes. They will certainly preference your other citrus first however and the damage tends be very negligible.

[Waiting]

How do these rate for flavor?

[Don]

Hey starling, where shouts can you find mt tamborine limes for sale or trade? Went to o'reillys and found a few fingerlimes a little while back, one tree had fruit about 2-3 inches long yellowish wheneipe with yellowish pulp tasted like lemon without the face pulling. Green one about the same size and same taste but slight difference in foliage then one that was the fattest fruit about same length if not a bit more than the others but about 3 times as fat, green pulp but i donth think they were fully ripe as taste was a little weird and pulp wasn't bursting yet, also had very attractive larger leaves.

[starling1]

Hey starling, where shouts can you find mt tamborine limes for sale or trade? Went to o'reillys and found a few fingerlimes a little while back, one tree had fruit about 2-3 inches long yellowish wheneipe with yellowish pulp tasted like lemon without the face pulling. Green one about the same size and same taste but slight difference in foliage then one that was the fattest fruit about same length if not a bit more than the others but about 3 times as fat, green pulp but i donth think they were fully ripe as taste was a little weird and pulp wasn't bursting yet, also had very attractive larger leaves.

They're pretty variable from what I can gather don. Aussiecitrus on ebay sells grafted pink pulped  Mt Tamborine Limes occasionally, other than that I've no idea where you'd get one.

[nickwhish]

Wow,
I was stoked just to get a Judy's ever bearing and a red centre lime. I had no idea those amazing other types existed.thanks  Starling great post.

[VeiledMaid]

Thank you for pictures of these varieties!
Would you happen to have pictures of what these finger limes look like when they are growing?

I was sent "Crimson Tide" and "Red Champagne" finger limes;
but the young fruit looks just like my "Rainforest Pearl" trees.

I'm very new to growing finger limes.
Do "Crimson Tide" and "Red Champagne" change to deep black and red when they ripen?

I would appreciate any information about when finger limes color up,
and anything that you might know that might change the color.

Thanks

[starling2]

Who sent them to you? PM.

[BMc]

The Ricks Red pictured is one of two types of a Ricks Red. It's the Daleys version. The original one from Rick Deering has black skinned fruit with vivid red pulp. The Daleys one has brown to red skin with lighter red pulp. The black skinned one is far superior. Got rid of my Daleys Ricks Red.
My Tamborine Lime? Weird name, considering Tamborine is an anglicisation of the local word for finger lime, or the being whose fingers the limes represent. So the Mt Tamborine Lime should be the finger lime. The other lime is the Dooja or Gympie Lime. It's basically looks like a Makrut fruit, on a finger lime tree. Foliage varies wildly, from tiny leaves to leaves 2/3 the size of regular lime trees. Is the mt Tamborine lime the same as the Dooja?

[starling2]

The Ricks Red pictured is one of two types of a Ricks Red. It's the Daleys version. The original one from Rick Deering has black skinned fruit with vivid red pulp. The Daleys one has brown to red skin with lighter red pulp. The black skinned one is far superior. Got rid of my Daleys Ricks Red.
My Tamborine Lime? Weird name, considering Tamborine is an anglicisation of the local word for finger lime, or the being whose fingers the limes represent. So the Mt Tamborine Lime should be the finger lime. The other lime is the Dooja or Gympie Lime. It's basically looks like a Makrut fruit, on a finger lime tree. Foliage varies wildly, from tiny leaves to leaves 2/3 the size of regular lime trees. Is the mt Tamborine lime the same as the Dooja?

Not the Dooja, or at least markedly different from the the Dooja I am familiar with. Although I wouldn't say I'm an expert on them, I don't even grow a dooja, or even the desert lime anymore. I have 12 finger limes, and that's it for me. It might be a hybrid between a dooja and wild pink caviar finger lime. I'll try and dig up a picture. Aussie citrus was the seller and Mt Tamborine lime is that seller's moniker. The fruit is round, green skinned with pink vesicles--the skin was not the burnished green/brown that I associate with Dooja. I have never seen a Dooja with pink pulp. But given how readily citrus hybridize it's not  huge leap really. although the only finger limes I ever found in the wild had had either yellowish or clear pulp. Never found a true pink one. In any case, aussie citrus claims to be the man on these things, worth a chat with him probably. I had thought about buying ione when the listing came up, but the tree was 45$ before postage, which is too much for something that might have ended p on the compost heap.

I have three things called 'rick's red', one is the daleys one, one is the black skinned type you describe (the skin isn't really black, it's just insanely dark green that looks black) and another is a bright red skinned type that is slender and pointy, which someone else told me is 'scarab red'.  Will the real Rick's Red please stand up?

[KrisKupsch]

The one in the image labeled as Mia Rose is the Mt Tamborine one and it came from my garden and my neighbour fraudulently named it after her daughter and it is an unimproved non superior genetic strain exactly the same as Citrus australasica var. sanguinea. So what your saying Starling that the Mt Tamborine one isn’t in cultivation is false..it is..it’s just sold as Mia Rose and you will find it’s not a good variety as no selections have taken place instead a fk load of $ was fraudulently earnt selling this wild strain as something special.

I had the application for formal recognition of Mia Rose rejected by ACRA who agreed with me.