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Citron
Citrus medica
The citron is a large fragrant citrus fruit with a thick rind, botanically classified as Citrus medica by both the Swingle and Tanaka botanical name systems. It is one of the four original citrus fruits (the others being pomelo, mandarin and papeda), from which all other citrus types developed through natural hybrid speciation or artificial hybridization.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium
Maria Sibylla Merian · 1705 · p.93
The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.259
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.270
History of Plants in Four Books
Valerius Cordus · 1561 · p.385
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.254
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.420
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.800
Compendium of Materia Medica
李時珍 · 1596 · p.40
Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.24
Hortus Eystettensis
Basilius Besler · 1640 · p.158
Elements of Botany
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort · 1719 · p.147
Maria Sibylla Merian — Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium (1719)
Maria Sibylla Merian · 1719 · p.101
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 123356.