[conspire] Japanese Citrus

[Kim Davalos]

The  citrus fruit in question is Yuzu:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_junos
http://ediblelandscaping.com/products/tropicals/Citrus/YuzuHardyCitrus.php

Cheers,
~kim

On 06/10/2018 04:26 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Paul Zander (paulz at ieee.org):
>
>> Last night, someone mentioned a special variety of citrus that is popular in Japan.  Can I get the name of that fruit so I can look for it?
> Just in case you don't get a direct answer, here's an Internet resource:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_citrus
>
>    A number of citrus fruits are grown in or strongly associated with
>    Japan. [...]
>
> On a related note, I'm still hopeful that my young Calamansi tree
> -- a citrus variant strongly associated with the Philippine Islands --
> will bear fruit.  I've become an avid fan of Calamansi juice
> concentrate, which is available in many South Bay markets catering to
> our local Filipino communtity.
>
> Recently, a Kaiser Foundation nurse (from the Philippines) and I were
> chatting, and I surprised the heck out of her by saying I was not only a
> huge fan of the fruit but had a young tree in my yard.  She was able to
> reassure me that producing fruit takes a few years of growth, first.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamondin
>
>
> FWIW, studying the history of citrus varieties, one comes across endless
> surprises, e.g., that the orange is not a natural (wild) fruit, was
> created by Chinese growers as a hybrid cross between mandarins and
> pomelos, and didn't make it to Europe _at all_ until the Arab conquest
> brought it to southern Spain in the 10th Century.
>
> This possibly explains the classical Greeks' obsession in their
> folk legends with a wondrous and never-seen thing they called a
> 'golden apple' -- χρυσομηλιά, adopted into Latin as 'pomum aurantium'.
> Probably, traders who'd seen oranges in China visited Greece and tried
> to describe them:  'Well, you have apples, here, right?  OK, then
> imagine a fruit about the size of an apple, and sweet and zesty sort of
> like an apple, but golden like the sun, both inside and out.'  'Wow!'
>
> In Europe outside Spain (and Sicily), oranges remained an exotic novelty
> for hundreds of years -- and such a status symbol among wealthy nobles
> that the competed as to who would have the grandest 'orangeries'
> (private enclosed orchards of orange trees).
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangery
>
> Naturally, Louis XIV was winner of the 'my orangerie is much bigger and
> fancier than yours' contest:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versailles_Orangerie
>
>
>
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