Hi Beo

I only know the red lime with that name, here is the info from Echo, scroll down and you will find it.

I use them all year round and I just made a marinade for the pork that I am cooking tomorrow for a party, limes are very juicy and good flavor for that. It is a nice tree and dwarf so you can keep it in a container if you don't have space.

Here it is now in the yard.

Silvia

Here is a link that might be useful: red lime

I sure would like to know too. I've given away approximately 80 seedlings, these are staying with me :-)

Tom

Is it this? Citrus australasica var. sanguinea, or Australian Blood lime?

No, not all. The fruit does not look like that one.

Here is a close up picture of the fruit.

Silvia

Here's another picture ;-)

Tom

Cool! It looks like a giant calamondin - does it taste like a lime?

Is it a calamondin?

Here is a link that might be useful: Types of Limes

Hi Carol, it is bigger than the calamondin but it does not taste the same. Calamondin has thinner skins that are great to make a marmalade, I also like it in rice or noodle dishes.
Red lime is more versatile and it is like comparing regular lemons with the Meyer that is milder. It is more juicier than regular limes for sure.

Beo, I looked at the lime chart and I don't see it. I also have a calamondin tree and the red lime is not that for sure.

My calamondin just now, when they turn color I will make marmalade.

Silvia

After more searching, I found this:

USDA Agricultural Research Service search results

and this:

Citrus ID: Fact Sheet: Red Lime

It's SO weird how there is so little information on this plant. Where did you come across it again, Silvia? I apologize if you've already explained somewhere else, I'm just curious. Let me know what you think about that info.

Stephanie

Stephanie

The first link is the right one, I got it from Excalibur. Some time ago when I just moved to this house, I was getting my fruit trees and some nice person gave me the tip on the red lime. It was very hard to get it then, about 3 years ago.

The Echo one might be different because they mention that maybe a cross between a rangpur and a kumquat?

Silvia

Fingers crossed that they do grow true....

Tom

Ok thanks, that was what I was looking for. My fingers are crossed too, Tom!

My fingers are also crossed!

I have five seedlings from Silvia's seeds. (Thanks, Silvia!) They vary a lot in size and form. One is close to a foot tall and has a single stem, another is under 6 inches tall with multiple branches, and the others are in between. Some have more and bigger thorns...it will be interesting to see how the fruit turns out in a few (several?) years.

Hi everyone that owns the red lime seedlings!

I wish you the best and to be happily surprised when the seedlings produce fruit when young, I had that happened in some of my fruit trees, there is hope...

Silvia

Hi everyone with Silvia's red lime seedlings.I have found that most citrus seedlings have thorns. A citrus expert I know states that it is natures way of protecting young plants.As they grow older they should be thorn free. To reproduce a thorn free duplicate of Silvia's tree you would need to graft or ( tee bud) a section or single bud from one of the tree's limb to a compatable root stock such as trifolita or flying dragon or etc.

Hi Harry!

For those of you that don't know flintknapper, he is the nice man that gave me some time ago the Black Jungle Butterbeans an excellent variety for our hot summers.

Thank you Harry for explaining us about the red lime...I wish that one day you can come to the garden party at my house.

Your friend in Florida

Silvia

Thank you for the kind words Silvia. I forgot to mention the reason we use the trifolita and flying dragon rootstock here in SE Texas is the added bonus of creating a more cold hardy citrus tree. This tree is decidous and makes the citrus grafted to it go dormant in the winter. It would help gardeners in northern Florida be more successful with the red lime. I currently have a satsuma, a pink grapefruit and a golden grapefruit growing unprotected in my yard that have survived some upper teen temps. I highly reccomend it as a rootstock.

Hello everyone-- I live on an island off the Gulf Coast of Florida, and I have been growing a red lime tree--at least I *think* it's a red lime tree--that I chanced across @3 years back. The tree is @10' tall and just began blooming this spring for the first time. The tree has no thorns, the maturing limes (there are 25-30 limes growing) are nearly perfectly round, but to this point, they are green and not red. The two largest/most ripe limes are developing a large yellow spot on top from what I believe is sun exposure, but no sign of redness. There is precious little info about the red lime on the internet, and I see here there's a nice person named Silvia who is growing these. I find reference to an Australian red lime and a rangpur lime from India, but the photos of those depict an oblong fruit; mine are perfectly round.

Can any of you with experience verify that this is in fact a "red lime," and that the limes turn red upon ripening...?

Hi Every Mann

Thank you, I think that you got the red lime, mine looks just like yours. If you open one the insides will be red. Mine is also green on the outside, eventually they turn red but you can use them already in anything that you use citrus, it makes a good lemonade too.

I just took these pictures for you...

Silvia

Wow; thank you Silvia! As the thread is a few years old, I was unsure if anyone would respond. I was anticipating bright red limes, but it appears that they are closer to an orange/yellow on the inside. These will actually turn red if left to fully ripen on the tree...? Thanks!

Every Mann, they do get an orange tone around winter time, here is one in February. They actually look like mini oranges but they are not sweet.

And I used it on this dish from the garden

Silvia

After about six years from seed we finally have four red limes. Two are these yellow ones; the other two are green. I got my seedling from tomncath who grew Sylvia's seeds. Thanks Tom and Sylvia. Anyone else getting fruit from seedlings from that era? Hopefully this photo will post. Only one of the four is round. The other three have a bit of a pear shape.

WAHOO!!! Congrats! Unfortunately mine died back to the roots this year. It's only maybe 20" tall now. Boo. Glad to see you are getting fruit. Thanks to Silvia - you are so helpful and blessing us with your wonderful Garden Parties, so many fantastic things!

Hi Shuffles! congratulations! you have the patience of a saint.:) I cannot believe it is 6 years already, I guess time flies. I hope that you get a lot of limes in the coming years, mine never stop producing, every year is a good year.

Hi Barbie! I miss the garden parties and most of all the gardening friends that came to share with us some wonderful times! Hope that one day we can all get together again and talk plants, my favorite subject....

My red lime today

Silvia

Yes Sylvia, many times patience is required. After six or seven years of no blooms from my Heliconia Rostrata, I threatened them with Roundup. They have been blooming like crazy ever since. After few to no Cherries of Rio Grande after six or seven years, they produced like crazy this year. A sad story is one of my back door neighbors (I have 9 - weird subdivision plat) planted an avocado pit and after 25+ years he finally got three or four fruits - then he died - and the next year the tree died. Enjoy what we have while we have it. If you can't wait, procure grafted fruit. By the way, I am still growing the Rat Tail Radishes you sent me - I am keep planning to pickle some but still have not got around to it.

Shuffles, I know we gardeners have to have some patience, things take time to grow. Every day I look at my beefsteak tomatoes like they never going to ripen and surprise sometimes they do in just a couple of days....

I went to Excalibur one time and got a jaboticaba, knowing that it takes 10 years to produce fruit. I put it on the east side of the house in the front yard, this way I would not be looking at it, Finally, this year I got some fruit and right after that I lost the tree to Irma.

I am glad about the Rat Tail radishes and that you are growing them, the edible garden is so rewarding!

Happy gardening!

We haven't had any more red limes since November, 2017. However, the tree just bloomed and is covered with baby fruit. It should be a good year for red limes. Also the larger of the two Cherries of Rio Grande is covered with blossoms.

That is great Shuffles! Mine is covered with mature fruit, baby fruit and more blossoms. Every year is a good year for my red lime