This variety is also available as a plant to domestic customers. This is the common supermarket lemon, also known as 'Four Seasons' ( Quatre Saisons) because of its ability to produce fruit and flowers together throughout the year. The 'Eureka' grows year-round and abundantly. These are mostly grown in San Diego County, USA. The 'Bonnie Brae' is oblong, smooth, thin-skinned and seedless. VarietiesДetailed taxonomic illustration by Franz Eugen KГ¶hler. The word draws from the Old French limon, then Italian limone, from the Arabic laymЕ«n or lД«mЕ«n, and from the Persian lД«mЕ«n, a generic term for citrus fruit, which is a cognate of Sanskrit ( nimbЕ«, вЂњ limeвЂќ). The origin of the word lemon may be Middle Eastern. In 1747, James Lind's experiments on seamen suffering from scurvy involved adding lemon juice to their diets, though vitamin C was not yet known as an important dietary ingredient.

In the 19th century, lemons were increasingly planted in Florida and California. It was mainly used as an ornamental plant and for medicine. Spanish conquest throughout the New World helped spread lemon seeds. The lemon was later introduced to the Americas in 1493 when Christopher Columbus brought lemon seeds to Hispaniola on his voyages. The first substantial cultivation of lemons in Europe began in Genoa in the middle of the 15th century. An article on Lemon and lime tree cultivation in Andalusia of Spain is brought down in Ibn al-'Awwam's 12th-century agricultural work, Book on Agriculture. It was distributed widely throughout the Arab world and the Mediterranean region between 10. The lemon was first recorded in literature in a 10th-century Arabic treatise on farming, and was also used as an ornamental plant in early Islamic gardens. They were later introduced to Persia and then to Iraq and Egypt around 700 AD. However, they were not widely cultivated. Lemons entered Europe near southern Italy no later than the second century AD, during the time of Ancient Rome. A genomic study of the lemon indicated it was a hybrid between bitter orange (sour orange) and citron. The origin of the lemon is unknown, though lemons are thought to have first grown in Assam (a region in northeast India), northern Burma or China. The distinctive sour taste of lemon juice makes it a key ingredient in drinks and foods such as lemonade and lemon meringue pie. The juice of the lemon is about 5% to 6% citric acid, with a pH of around 2.2, giving it a sour taste. The pulp and rind are also used in cooking and baking. The tree's ellipsoidal yellow fruit is used for culinary and non-culinary purposes throughout the world, primarily for its juice, which has both culinary and cleaning uses. The lemon ( Citrus limon) is a species of small evergreen tree in the flowering plant family Rutaceae, native to Asia, primarily Northeast India ( Assam), Northern Myanmar or China. Citrus Г— limodulcis D.Rivera, ObГіn & F.MГ©ndez.

Green lemon