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Re: A Field spotter's Guide to Australian Finger lime Cultivars
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2014, 09:41:49 AM »
WOW! Impressive!

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Re: A Field spotter's Guide to Australian Finger lime Cultivars
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2014, 10:11:19 AM »
These are so much farther along in Australia.  Here, we are lucky to get 2 types:  red finger and green finger. 
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Re: A Field spotter's Guide to Australian Finger lime Cultivars
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2014, 10:45:23 AM »
Wow. I got a Giant Finger from Brightleaf. Wish I could find Red.

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Re: A Field spotter's Guide to Australian Finger lime Cultivars
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2014, 12:28:33 AM »
Harris sells red finger lime as well as green, but nothing like what starling posted.
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Re: A Field spotter's Guide to Australian Finger lime Cultivars
« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2014, 01:05:08 AM »
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.

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Re: A Field spotter's Guide to Australian Finger lime Cultivars
« Reply #6 on: December 14, 2014, 01:14:02 AM »
Very impressive colors!
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Re: A Field spotter's Guide to Australian Finger lime Cultivars
« Reply #7 on: December 22, 2014, 10:00:53 PM »
Thanks, very useful. I have a small "air rooted" Red rick, but it's really slow growing. :-\

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Re: A Field spotter's Guide to Australian Finger lime Cultivars
« Reply #8 on: December 23, 2014, 01:21:11 AM »
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
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Re: A Field spotter's Guide to Australian Finger lime Cultivars
« Reply #9 on: December 23, 2014, 01:58:14 AM »
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.

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Re: A Field spotter's Guide to Australian Finger lime Cultivars
« Reply #10 on: December 30, 2014, 10:27:47 PM »
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.  :D

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Re: A Field spotter's Guide to Australian Finger lime Cultivars
« Reply #11 on: December 30, 2014, 10:30:56 PM »
Harris sells red finger lime as well as green, but nothing like what starling posted.
Harris, huh? Good to know. Thanks

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Re: A Field spotter's Guide to Australian Finger lime Cultivars
« Reply #12 on: January 21, 2015, 08:10:21 PM »
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.  :D

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.

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Re: A Field spotter's Guide to Australian Finger lime Cultivars
« Reply #13 on: February 20, 2015, 08:18:08 AM »
Emma




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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?

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Re: A Field spotter's Guide to Australian Finger lime Cultivars
« Reply #14 on: February 20, 2015, 11:15:49 AM »
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.
Grow mainly fruits, vegetables, and herbs.

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Re: A Field spotter's Guide to Australian Finger lime Cultivars
« Reply #15 on: February 20, 2015, 03:42:17 PM »
Leaf miner will attack them, yes. They will certainly preference your other citrus first however and the damage tends be very negligible.

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Re: A Field spotter's Guide to Australian Finger lime Cultivars
« Reply #16 on: April 21, 2015, 04:59:41 PM »
How do these rate for flavor?

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Re: A Field spotter's Guide to Australian Finger lime Cultivars
« Reply #17 on: May 14, 2015, 08:43:39 PM »
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.

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Re: A Field spotter's Guide to Australian Finger lime Cultivars
« Reply #18 on: May 15, 2015, 08:17:55 PM »
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.

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Re: A Field spotter's Guide to Australian Finger lime Cultivars
« Reply #19 on: July 18, 2015, 08:45:13 AM »
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.

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Re: A Field spotter's Guide to Australian Finger lime Cultivars
« Reply #20 on: November 10, 2015, 06:11:53 PM »
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.

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Re: A Field spotter's Guide to Australian Finger lime Cultivars
« Reply #21 on: November 10, 2015, 06:27:40 PM »
Who sent them to you? PM.

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Re: A Field spotter's Guide to Australian Finger lime Cultivars
« Reply #22 on: November 12, 2015, 04:08:34 PM »
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?

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« Reply #23 on: November 12, 2015, 04:15:44 PM »
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?
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« Reply #24 on: December 31, 2018, 06:08:45 PM »
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.

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Re: A Field spotter's Guide to Australian Finger lime Cultivars
« Reply #25 on: June 22, 2020, 05:50:38 AM »
I just got the rare "Purple Bliss" finger lime!         ;D

PS: Just buyed Red Center lime, Crimson Tide and Little Ruby finger limes...
 
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Re: A Field spotter's Guide to Australian Finger lime Cultivars
« Reply #26 on: November 28, 2022, 08:29:20 AM »
In a few months, depending on how many Byron Sunrise seeds survive, I might have some extra to give away. Two Brazilians who I promised seeds to have priority.

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Re: A Field spotter's Guide to Australian Finger lime Cultivars
« Reply #27 on: November 29, 2022, 03:15:34 AM »
I wonder if those Brazilians got those Finger Limes ?

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Re: A Field spotter's Guide to Australian Finger lime Cultivars
« Reply #28 on: November 29, 2022, 08:09:42 AM »
I want a pink ice one so bad...
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« Reply #29 on: November 29, 2022, 02:50:51 PM »
I collected wild Finger Lime seed from Nth NSW, one orange fruited one green fruited. I grew those seeds and the fruiting plants were identical to the parent, except slight differences in fruit size                ( but not skin and pulp colour ).
As far as see it, seed would be true to type, except for the fact that Finger Lime seed sellers often grow the plants in multi variety collections or plantations, so cross pollination is more likely than with the isolated wild plants I found.
Also some of the prized varieties have more complex skin pulp pigment colour combinations, so pigment variable offspring could be more likely.
( plus X pollination on top of that too ).
If a particular Finger Lime plant produces pigmented fruit, attractive to birds or animals to spread the seed, it doesn't make much sense for the plant to produce wildly different coloured fruit that may be less attractive than the parent.
I think if you could get  isolated non X pollinated seed of Finger Lime varieties, it is more likely they will be true to the parent. There are still other factors to think about like fruit setting ability etc. The whole package is probably only available by grafting.
As far as I know all existing C.australasica Finger Lime varieties are wild collected and none have bred by deliberate cross pollinating.
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« Reply #30 on: November 29, 2022, 06:02:23 PM »
very interesting! I had no idea they were common enough in the wild that you could just go and find them, but yeah it makes sense that grafting is probably the only way. I wish I could go out and hunt fruit, mushrooms are about the only thing I can confidently find here (IDing is a different story)
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Re: A Field spotter's Guide to Australian Finger lime Cultivars
« Reply #31 on: November 30, 2022, 02:35:57 AM »
The area that Finger Limes grow was discussed over on the Citrus General Discussion.

https://tropicalfruitforum.com/index.php?topic=48658.msg469956#msg469956

Wild Finger limes grow from Ballina on the coast in NSW, up to the Gold Coast area in QLD. That is about 115 km.
I used to live in NTH NSW and occasionally found them, They are more common in certain spots in their range.
They are easier to find around the Mt Tambourine area and around there

 

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