Rutaceae FAMILY

Citrus inodora

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

0/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Cultivation Details

HabitEvergreen Shrub

Growth—

A plant of the lowland, wet tropics. It grows in areas where the mean annual rainfall is 4,250mm^[1]. Succeeds in poor soils^[2]. Established plants are drought tolerant^[2]. Plants usually commence flowering and setting fruit when around 1 - 3 metres tall^[3].

Propagation

Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Citrus+inodora>

Pollinators

Data unavailable

References

[1]University of California Riverside. Citrus Variety Collection — http://www.citrusvariety.ucr.edu/citrus/alphabetical.html ↩︎A series of fact sheets about various Citrus species and related species, plus varieties. Good photographs, some helpful information on uses.
[2]Trade Winds Fruit — http://www.tradewindsfruit.com/index.htm ↩︎The on-line catalogue of a company selling seeds. Gives descriptions, photos and uses of a very wide range of fruit and other food-producing plants plus ornamentals.
[3]Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants — http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/cd-keys/rfk/index.html ↩︎An online resource giving botanical information, and a little bit about plant usage, for over 2,700 species of plants found in the Australian rainforest.
[4]Dictionary of Economic Plants. — Uphof. J. C. Th. · Weinheim · 1959 · ISBN - ↩︎An excellent and very comprehensive guide but it only gives very short descriptions of the uses without any details of how to utilize the plants. Not for the casual reader.