The pinyin for lemon is: níng méng.

Lemon is a dicotyledonous plant belonging to the genus Citrus, Rutaceae. Lemon is also called lemon fruit, foreign lemon, beneficial mother fruit and so on. Small trees with few or nearly no thorns, dark purple leaves and flower buds, thick papery leaves, oval or oval.

single flowers are axillary or few flowers are clustered. The fruit is oval or ovoid, with thick peel, usually rough, lemon yellow, sour to very sour juice, small, ovoid and pointed seeds; Seed coat is smooth, cotyledons are milky white, usually single or with multiple embryos. The flowering period is April-May and the fruiting period is September-November.

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Growth habit

Lemon is warm, shade-tolerant, not cold-resistant, and also afraid of heat, so it is suitable for cultivation in subtropical areas with warm winter and cool summer. The suitable annual average temperature of lemon is 17-19℃, the annual effective accumulated temperature (≥1℃) is above 55℃, the average temperature in January is 6-8℃, and the extreme minimum temperature is higher than -3℃.

the annual rainfall is more than 1mm, and the annual sunshine hours are more than 1 hours. Lemon is suitable for planting in warm gentle slope with deep soil layer and good drainage, and the most suitable soil pH value of lemon is between 5.5 and 7..

Lemon plants grow rapidly, with the height of 3-6 meters, which requires a large amount of fertilizer. They shoot, blossom and bear fruit many times a year, and the yield often varies greatly due to good or bad management.

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