Toots Australian Finger Lime Budwood

Microcitrus australasica.

Open pollinated seedling of 'Byron sunrise'. The tree is rated large in size with a dense canopy and upright to spreading growth habit. Budunion with Citrus macrophylla rootstock is smooth and no suckering has been observed. 

The fruit set is considered high, year round ripening; peak fruit production is October to December and flowers February to April in the Californian climate. Branches bear many single spines, typical of Microcitrus australasica, averaging 11.20 mm in length. Mature leaves average 16.40 mm × 7.15 mm. The leaf shape is obovate, with a cuneate base. The leaf apex is retuse. The leaf margin is unevenly dentate. Flowers and fruit are borne singly in leaf axils on short stout pedicels 1-5 mm long. The fruit shape is slightly curved. 

Mature fruit have an external color ranging light red to dark red and weigh an average of 29.15 g at maturity. Mature fruit ranges from 5.60 – 9.36 cm in length and 2.15 – 2.73 cm in width at maturity. The number of locules per fruit range from 5 to 7. Pulp vesicles are pink, pink-white, red-white to very bright pink. Seeds are numerous.

Prepared by the Givaudan Citrus Variety Collection at The University of California Riverside.