Citrus Trees

Image by gnek Papedas may look like something you would find delicious, but you might be terribly wrong. What are papedas? They are the ancestors of many of our common citrus fruits. Papeda fruits are always…

Image by gsermek If you are a seaside resident and wish to experience the joys of freshly plucked citrus from your very own tree, you may be wondering, “Are citrus trees salt tolerant?” The salt tolerance of…

Image by Maeperski via Q&A With their brightly colored, fragrant fruits, there’s no reason not to grow citrus, even if you have to have a greenhouse in order to do it. Sometimes, though, your beautiful…

Image by Florida Division of Plant Industry Archive, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Bugwood.org As home gardeners, we all know that our fruits and veggies are susceptible to a…

Image by Don Ferrin, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Bugwood.org Gardeners with citrus trees should ask, “What are citrus mites?” The citrus mite is found in all of the Americas as well as…

Citrus trees provide us with the fruits for our favorite juices. These warm region trees have a host of potential disease issues with cotton root rot one of the more serious. Cotton root rot on citrus is one of the more devastating.…

Image by Dcwcreations You have waited and waited and now it looks, smells and tastes like it’s citrus fruit picking time. The thing is, if you’ve tried pulling citrus off trees and are met with great…

Image by Viktor_Kitaykin Are citrus leaves edible? Technically, eating orange and lemon leaves is fine because the leaves aren’t toxic as long as they haven’t been treated with pesticides or other chemicals.…

Image by eyen120819 Citrus canker is a financially devastating disease that has been eradicated from the citrus market a couple of times only to return again. During past eradication attempts, thousands of…

Image by Vitaliy Halenov If you grow citrus fruits on a few trees in the home landscape, you may be familiar with citrus scab symptoms. If not, you may ask, what is citrus scab? It is a fungal disease that…