Sublime
Citrus x aurantiifolia
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Description
Sublime is a modern NZ-market lime selected for home gardens: a compact, highly productive tree bearing good-sized, juicy, seedless limes with thin, glossy green skins and a refreshing sweet-tart flavour. It is prized for reliable cropping over a long harvest season, giving home gardeners fresh limes for cooking, drinks, and garnishes across much of the year rather than in a single window. The tree stays small to medium (around 2-2.5 m), suits both open ground and containers on patios and in courtyards, and is rated hardy and easy-care for most NZ climates by NZ suppliers. Fruit quality and habit make it arguably the best all-round lime for small NZ gardens where a full-sized Tahitian is too vigorous. Grow in a sunny, sheltered position with free-draining soil; feed spring and summer, mulch, and shelter from frost when young. Self-fertile. Fruit keeps moderately well; pick as needed over the long season.
Characteristics
Fruit Size
Small/Medium
Peel Colour
Green, thin and glossy
Flesh Colour
Pale green-yellow
Harvest Timing (NZ)
Unknown
Seediness
Seedless
Growth Habit
Compact
Thorny
Notes
Easy-care and compact - suited to containers (45cm+ pot) or small sunny sheltered gardens. Plant in free-draining soil, water while establishing and in dry spells, feed with citrus fertiliser spring-summer, prune lightly after fruiting. Protect from frost when young; in cool regions keep in a pot for winter shelter.; Also reported: Compact, near-thornless patio habit suited to pots and balcony living; Fruit shows yellow as ripening starts, used green-ripe; Culinary and drinks use: cooking, flavouring and decorating drinks; Prolific crop of juicy fruit on a small tree
Fruit Use
Culinary
Flavour Profile
Sweet, Tart, Juicy
Storage Life
Moderate
Country Availability
Known to be available in 1 country