On 7/9/07 10:17, in article
, "FarmI"
ask@itshall be given wrote:

"Sacha" wrote in message
Great excitement down here - Ray has successfully propagated about half a
dozen of these from the small plant I gave him in March *and* the parent
plant has lots of new fruits on it in varying sizes. They aren't used for
culinary purposes much - apart from candying the peel - but are used to
scent houses in Japan and China, apparently. The perfume of the fruit is
outstanding.

What a co-incidence. I was just discussing this citrus today with a friend.


Do you have it? I think it's grown in Australia, probably more as a
curiosity than anything else but once ours produces enough fruits, I hope to
keep them in various parts of the house. Bob's right that they're not very
fast growing, though Ray's has probably put on about 4" and has provided a
fair bit of cutting material. He's going to keep those as propagators, too
until we get a good stock of them. The straightforward Citrus medica we
took to Devon County Show was a show-stopper this year. We arranged it
beside a table with a bottle of gin, a tumbler and some tonic water. ;-)
This is a pic I took of Ray (and assistants) with the tree. It's
astonishing that such a baby tree can produce several enormous fruits.
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