Species and Cultivars

Varieties and Cultivars
    Limes
    Varieties: Kagzi lime is the best most popular one. Some of the improved varieties of limes are: Pramalini, Vikram, Saisarbat- supposed to be canker free and prolific bearers.
    Chakradhar: seedless strain of acid lime, PKM-1 heavy yielder.
    Selection 49: tolerant to canker, tristiza and leaf miner. It is also a prolific bearer.
    Seedless lime: fruits are oblong-prolific bearer. Tahiti lime- plants nearly thornless, leaves much larger of different shapes- fruits also much larger- triploid.
    Mithachikna (Thin rind) and Mithotra (Thick rind): Two varieties of sweet lime with less acid, sweet fruits and are mostly used as stocks. Rangapur lime is grown for root stock purpose.
    Lemons
    Eureka: Fruit elliptic to oblong, base necked and heavy yielder.
    Lisbon: Fruits oblong, apex nippled
    Villafranka: Fruits oval-oblong, apex pointed, bear more seeds.
    Lucknow seedless (Assam lemon): Fruit oblong, apex nippled.seeds few or absent.
    Nepali round: nipple has a scar.
    Kagzikalan: fruit spherical, apex slightly nippled.
    Plant lemon 1: Selection of Kagzi kalan tolerant to canker tristiza and die-back-selfcompatible.

Last modified: Wednesday, 2 May 2012, 6:34 AM