Stan’s Obligatory Blog

9/28/2004

Mutant lemons

Filed under: — stan @ 10:59 pm

Being a transplant from Back East, it took me several years to get used to the idea that citrus fruit just grows on trees in peoples’ back yards here. I’ve accepted this. But this evening, I needed a lemon from our neighbor’s tree, and I saw these weird-looking mutant lemons growing on it. You won’t find these for sale in the produce section:
 

3 Responses to “Mutant lemons”

  1. Operation BEAGLE Says:

    Did you try them???

  2. Iris Says:

    That’s a common parasitic condition caused by a type of mite fly. If you opened them up, they would be full of pith and white webbing, and tons of larvae. Tasty!

  3. Pussy Says:

    it looks like a pussy spit in half.. thats funny…

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