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Very strange lemons

 
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I am (hopefully temporarily) in California, trying to get a few more ducks in a row for my next attempt in the Dominican Repermies. A roommate, who knows I like lemonade, brought me these lemons from his landscaping job. He said that one side of the tree was bearing normal oranges, and the other side of the same three, these lemons. In this picture, the two lemons in the background were approximately grapefruit size, and the wartier lemon in the foreground, somewhat larger, between grapefruit size and pomelo size. When I cut them open, the lumpy lemon was so loosely attached to its rind, I could have peeled it like a tangerine, and there was no real core, just an air space in the middle of the circle of segments. The two smoother lemons adhered to their rinds in the normal way, and the segments did not form a neat ring, but were jumbled. The warty lemon contained 13 seeds; of the two smoother ones, one contained no seeds, the other, one seed. The flavor of all three was the standard lemon flavor, so I went ahead and made the lemonade. Has anyone else ever seen anything like this?

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I wonder if it's not a yuzu? They have lots of seeds, a lemony taste, and some can be really warty and weird.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzu
 
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I was about to say ... looks like your lemon is a lemon.

But you already made lemonade!

Anyway, that's some cool crazy lookin' fruit you have there.
 
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