14 Facts About Citrus fruits

Citrus fruits is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the rue family, Rutaceae.

The genus Citrus fruits is native to South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Melanesia, and Australia.

Citrus fruits plants are native to subtropical and tropical regions of Asia, Island Southeast Asia, Near Oceania, and northeastern Australia.

Citrus fruits species began to diverge from a common ancestor about 15 million years ago, at about the same time that Severinia diverged from the same ancestor.

Three ancestral species in the genus Citrus fruits associated with modern Citrus fruits cultivars are the mandarin orange, pomelo, and citron.

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Citrus fruits are notable for their fragrance, partly due to flavonoids and limonoids contained in the rind, and most are juice-laden.

In tropical regions with no winter at all, citrus fruits remain green until maturity, hence the tropical "green oranges".

Citrus fruits are nonclimacteric and respiration slowly declines and the production and release of ethylene is gradual.

The Citrus fruits do not go through a ripening process in the sense that they become "tree ripe".

Citrus fruits pass from immaturity to maturity to overmaturity while still on the tree.

Citrus fruits trees grown in tubs and wintered under cover were a feature of Renaissance gardens, once glass-making technology enabled sufficient expanses of clear glass to be produced.

Citrus fruits plants are sensitive to excessive salt in the soil.

Some Citrus fruits species contain significant amounts of the phytochemical class called furanocoumarins, a diverse family of naturally occurring organic chemical compounds.

Genus Citrus fruits has been suggested to originate in the eastern Himalayan foothills.