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Saturday, June 24, 2006

Freaky Fruit!

We went to dinner at a friend's house yesterday, and I got to spend some time picking fruit and playing with his golden retriever. I was thrilled at the prospect of free lemons and oranges, but I soon found out not all was as it seemed. Observe:

A freaky hybrid lemon! I'm pretty sure his tree is a lemon and Buddha's hand citron hybrid. Why else would this fruit look like this? Most of the fruit looks like oversized lemons (disguising the fact that they, like Buddha's hand, have very little juice), but a few gnarly ones gave away the true nature of the plant. Like Buddah's hand, they give off more fragrants than regular lemons. They'll be a nice air freshener and source of zest if nothing else.