> *** Quoting Barbara McNay from a message to Carol
 > Shenkenberger ***


 >> I've had them and am not sure if they would be
 >> different if the temps were other.  I've simply been
 >> told they are meant to ne green and dont turn any
 >> orange outside at all.

 > BM> Say, have you ever come across sweet limes or sweet lemons? I've heard
 > BM> that such exist.

 > You may well mean the Calamansi there.  Yes, I have
 > heard of sweet lemon and sweet lime, but most often it
 > seems to be the Calamansi which isnt truely 'sweet'
 > but is edible just as it is.  The other would be the
 > 'cumquat' which unfortunately gets a generic name
 > convention and is *extremley* varied in the actual
 > fruit.  Some are like little oranges where the skin is
 > so delicate, you do not bother to peel them.  Others
 > are a bannana related family with a tang of almost
 > citrus .

I have a book somewhere on fruits and vegetables of the world, which stated
that lemons and limes occurred in sweet varieties, also.  My take on that
was that there are fruits that look like regular lemons and limes, but
which are sweet and can be eaten as is without additional sweetening. 
Cumquats have always been available in season in US grocery stores in
cities where I have lived, though probably not out in the boonies.

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