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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: okie64 on October 12, 2016, 09:49:01 pm

Title: Tree id
Post by: okie64 on October 12, 2016, 09:49:01 pm

Anybody know what kind of tree this is? The fruit smelled like oranges but was a little more bitter than an orange and it had lots of small seeds in it. It had big thorns about an inch and a half long all over it.
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Title: Re: Tree id
Post by: osage outlaw on October 12, 2016, 10:11:40 pm

I think this might be it.

http ://thebellhouse.weebly.com/home/hunting-wild-trifoliate

Title: Re: Tree id
Post by: mullet on October 12, 2016, 10:58:11 pm

Where do you live? And, what did it taste like?

Title: Re: Tree id
Post by: mullet on October 12, 2016, 11:00:06 pm

Oh, wife just said it was a Bergamot. Supplement for cholesterol I take is made from it.

Title: Re: Tree id
Post by: Pat B on October 12, 2016, 11:10:02 pm

Poncirus trifoliata, hardy orange. There is a cool cultivar called "Flying Dragon" with contorted branches and thorns.

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Post by: Outbackbob48 on October 12, 2016, 11:15:11 pm

Eddie, isn't Bergamont and Bee Balm the same and a wild flower?

Title: Re: Tree id
Post by: okie64 on October 13, 2016, 08:05:28 am

Thanks fellas.

Title: Re: Tree id
Post by: Pat B on October 13, 2016, 09:09:47 am

Bob, the Bergamont I know is bee balm or Monarda, a wildflower in the mint family.

Title: Re: Tree id
Post by: mullet on October 13, 2016, 10:11:37 am

The tree I'm talking about is the Citrus Begamia, a possible hybrid of the Citrus limetta or Citrus Aurantium.

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Post by: bowtarist on October 13, 2016, 10:45:39 am

What Pat said.

Title: Re: Tree id
Post by: mullet on October 13, 2016, 06:06:01 pm

Just looked it up, Flying Dragon it is.

Title: Re: Tree id
Post by: Pat B on October 13, 2016, 11:38:29 pm

Flying Dragon is a very cool variety of this plant. I got cuttings of the Flying Dragon from The North Carolina Arboretum in Raleigh years ago but none of my cuttings made it.