Lemon production in China is mainly in southern China, such as Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi and Sichuan. The main lemon producing provinces in China are Sichuan and Yunnan. In Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province, in July, 2003, the lemon planting area in Quanzhou reached 42,000 mu, and a large lemon production base in China was built. At present, the largest lemon production base of 654.38+10,000 mu in China has been built.

Lemon is native to India, located in the southwest of China and the north of Myanmar. China's cultivation is late, and the cultivation amount is not much. Distributed in the provinces (autonomous regions) south of the Yangtze River. Taiwan Province Province is the main producing area of lemon in China, followed by Sichuan. Anyue County, Ziyang, Sichuan is the hometown of lemons in China, and the only lemon commodity production base county in China. Other producing areas are mainly in Fujian, Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places. Because of its high economic benefits, lemon has been introduced to some provinces and cities south of the Yellow River.

Lemon, a citrus plant in Rutaceae, is also called lemon fruit, foreign lemon and beneficial mother fruit. Small trees with little or no thorns, dark purple leaves and buds, thick papery leaves, oval or ovoid. Flowers axillary or rarely clustered. The fruit is oval or ovoid, with thick peel, usually rough, lemon yellow, sour to very sour juice, small seeds, ovoid and sharp; Seed coat is smooth, cotyledons are milky white, usually single embryo or multi-embryo. The flowering period is April-May, and the fruiting period is September-165438+1October.

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