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Origin: Citrus australasica, or caviar lime, is a thorny shrub or small tree of lowland subtropical rainforest and rainforest. Our finger limes are seeded, USDA certified, and are only available for a limited time.

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We ALWAYS recommend ordering a LARGE BOX for the best value, when compared to a Small Box. Because shipping, handling, and delivery are so expensive per package, the Large Box will contain more fruit and ultimately a better value.

Slice your Caviar Limes in half and gently squeeze to push out the citrus pearls. You can also slice Caviar Limes lengthwise to garnish drinks and food dishes. We recommend that you do not eat the skin, much like you would not eat a traditional lime peel.

Caviar Limes should only be stored in the canvas bag if you plan to consume them all within three days. For longer storage, transfer to a non-airtight plastic, glass or silicone container and keep in the fridge for up to 2 weeks. You can also freeze caviar limes, whole or sliced, in an airtight container for up to 6 months. If you plan to use frozen caviar limes in beverages, we recommend slicing them prior to freezing.

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Good Land Organics is a family-operated, certified-organic, biodiverse farm, located just north of Santa Barbara, California, nestled between the Santa Ynez mountains and the Pacific Coast. Jay Ruskey and his family founded Good Land Organics with a unique farm mission: to experiment growing rare crops in North America. These days, the farm grows coffee, dragon fruit, passion fruit, longan, Inga Bean, amongst many more tropical crops, normally found in highly tropical climates around the world.

FruitStand Promise: Every experience box on Fruitstand.com ships directly from the farm. Prior to shipment, the farms we work with assess the fruit for ripeness, flavor, color and optimal plant health, harvest the fruit (often by hand), and pack up every single experience box on-site, at the farm. Every piece of fruit is carefully selected by our farm partners. While nature can be unpredictable, our farm partners plan for everything they possibly can.

**Also please note...occasionally extreme weather conditions (cold or hot), holidays and/or weekends, require us to determine the best possible day to ship your fresh fruit order. If we have to change the shipping date of your order, we will notify you via e-mail or by phone as soon as possible. This is the best way to help ensure the fruit you receive (or send) will be the freshest possible!

Citrus australasica, the Australian finger lime or caviar lime, is a thorny understorey shrub or small tree of lowland subtropical rainforest and rainforest in the coastal border region of Queensland and New South Wales, Australia.

The finger lime has been recently[when?] popularised as a gourmet bushfood. The globular juice vesicles (also known as pearls) have been likened to a "lime caviar",[5][6] which can be used as a garnish or added to various recipes. The fresh vesicles have the effect of a burst of effervescent tangy flavour as they are chewed. The fruit juice is acidic and similar to that of a lime. Marmalade and pickles are also made from finger lime. Finger lime peel can be dried and used as a flavouring spice.[2]

The finger lime has been recently[when?] grown on a commercial basis in Australia in response to high demand for the fruit. There is an increasing range of genetic selections which are budded onto citrus rootstock. With the sudden high market demand for the fruit the primary source of genetic material for propagation has been selections from wild stock.[citation needed]

In cultivation, the finger lime plant is grown in much the same way as other citrus species. It may be subject to some pests and diseases requiring pest control in cropping situations. This includes scale, caterpillars, gall-wasp, and limb dieback. Fruit fly research has concluded that finger limes are a non-host plant to fruit flies and as such are not a quarantine risk to importing countries.

Research conducted since the 1970s indicated that a wild selection of C. australasica was highly resistant to Phytophthora citrophthora root disease, which has resulted in a cross-breeding program with finger lime to develop disease-resistant citrus rootstock. In 2020, researchers began working with C. australasica to develop solutions for Citrus greening disease.[4][7]

The CSIRO has also developed several Citrus hybrids by crossing the finger lime with standard Citrus species. These hybrids have created many cultivars which generate finger limes in many different colors ranging from light pink to deep blue-green. Finger lime is thought to have the widest range of color variation within any Citrus species. The color of the pulp (juice vesicles) comes in shades of green or pink including pale lime-green, pale pink, coral, and scarlet.

Historically the finger lime was viewed as a member of the genus Citrus. The Swingle system of taxonomy instead divided the historical true citrus into seven genera, placing the finger lime along with the round lime in a novel genus, Microcitrus.[1] However, subsequent studies have favored a broader concept of Citrus that reunites the genera separated by Swingle, restoring the finger lime to Citrus.

Finger lime (Citrus australasica) is a small tree native to Australian rainforests. They produce small, elongated fruits, and have a narrow, oblong shape with slight tapering at both ends. It has been traditionally used as a food source by the Indigenous Australians but in present days finger lime is a commercial crop.

Finger limes are native to Australia, specifically to the rainforests in Southeast Queensland and Northern New South Wales. They used to be plenty of them in the Australian tropical rainforests, but once European colonization arrived in Australia their numbers were reduced dramatically due to deforestation caused by Europeans.

Finger limes have a minty, citrus aroma with a tangy, sweet, and slightly sour, floral, lemon-lime flavour. The taste of finger limes also varies. Limes with pink pulp are typically sweet. Those with the green pulp have more tart taste. Most people describe their taste very similar to regular limes, but with less sourness.

The best way to open one of these fruits is to slice at its centre and then squeeze one of the halves. When you apply pressure, little balls of pulp will spill out. These tiny juice bubbles easily separate from one another and pop when chewed. They are usually eaten raw but they can be used in desserts such as in cakes.

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Florida's tropical fruit industry acreage has fluctuated since the 1970s due to natural disasters, foreign competition, and US demographic changes. The state has approximately 1,650 commercial tropical fruit producers growing over 30 different species of fruits. Production occurs on about 16,000 acres, with an economic impact of over $137 million annually. Approximately 85% of the commercial acreage is located in Miami-Dade County, with the remainder in Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, Indian River, Lee, Martin, Palm Beach, Pasco, St. Lucie, and Sarasota Counties.

Challenges to the Florida tropical fruit industry include more foreign competition, higher domestic labor costs, stringent US environmental regulations, and an increase in invasive alien pests and diseases in the state (Shannon 2003). The sum effect is that Florida's growers are finding it difficult to compete in some of the markets for traditional tropical fruit crops and are actively searching for alternative niche-market crops that offer the potential of relatively high returns. Consequently, the aim of this article is to draw attention to a potential alternative niche crop, namely finger limes. Currently, commercial production of this crop in the United States is extremely limited, and data on the agronomic and economic aspect of domestically producing and marketing the crop are sparse and, in most cases, unavailable, resulting in the need to rely on information sourced from abroad. Notwithstanding the paucity of data, the article provides some insights of potential returns associated with this crop. 041b061a72