This is what pink lemonade is supposed to be made of...not dyed sugar crystals. :) The leaves and peal are variegated!!! The fruit is pink and the tree looks silvery green until you get close neough to realize the leaves are half white and half green. Supposedly, the tree is from Asia.
Home Depot was selling small pink lemons last summer and I bought one. It hasn't set fruit yet, but it's growing very nicely in my zone 9b hot summer heat. It's in a pot on my pool deck, which is the hottest part of the yard. If the bottom of the pool gets 92, imagine how hot the deck top gets!
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ReplyDeleteI bought one of the variegated lemons last year and I actually have 3 lemons on it! Mine is also in a pot (it gets pretty cold here in Gainesville), but I was so suprised to see the fruit actually set.
ReplyDeleteWell, thanks for teaching me something! I have never heard of pink lemons. -Lee
ReplyDeleteThis was sooooooooooooo interesting! I've never seen the pink lemon before. I'm going to research it and see if I can grow it in our zone!-Randy
ReplyDeleteI live in phoenix arizona and just bought one of these trees. I'm planting it inbetween the improved meyers lemon and the brazillian pepper. hopefully the leaves wont scorch like the pepper's did. but the meyers lemon only scathed the 115+ degree heat with minor sunburn. I'm hoping the pinkie will fare just as well if not better because the leaves will reflect some of the heat.
ReplyDeletealso, I babied a little 5 gallon clemintine tree. it also made it though the summer! yay!
I have had a pink lemon tree for about 5 years.
ReplyDeleteIt is wonderful! I get about 20 to 30 lemons in a season. Very beautiful tree.
Kathie-Texas
Hi! I bought a pink lemon tree from a farmer's market about 8 years ago and planted it outside. (I live in central FL) . I was going to cut it out of the landscape as it only produced an occasional lemon and it has HUGE thorns. However, this late summer it produced a bunch of lemons. There is nothing unique about the leaves or the fruit. They are big and still green. The fruit is very seedy and white. Does this sound like a pink lemon yree and when do they mature (the lemons) Thanks! Cath Allen Razzallen@gmail.com
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