About limeberry
Micromelum minutum, commonly known as limeberry, dilminyin (east Arnhem Land). kimiar margibur (Murray Island), tulibas tilos (Philippines), sesi (Indonesia) and samui (Thailand), is a species of small tree or shrub in the citrus plant family Rutaceae. It occurs from India and Indochina to Australia. It has pinnate leaves with egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaflets, hairy, pale green or creamish, scented flowers arranged in large groups and yellow to orange or red, oval to spherical berries in dense clusters.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Micromelum minutum
- Genus
- Micromelum
- Family
- RUTACEAE
- Habit
- Tree
- Habitat
- Semi-Evergreen forests
- Distribution
- India, SE Asia, Sri Lanka, Malesia, Melanesia, Fiji, Tonga
- Flowering & fruiting
- January-June
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Rutaceae
Citrus/Rue family
limeberry belongs to the Rutaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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