Lemon

Lemon (scientific name: Citrus limon (L.) Burm. F.), Rutaceae citrus plants, lemon, also known as lime fruit, lemon, lees and so on. Small trees, less thorns or nearly thorny, young leaves and flower buds dark purple, leaf blade thick, oval or oval. Single flower axillary or less flowers clustered Fruit oval or ovate, peel thick, usually rough, lemon yellow, fruit sour to very sour, seed small, ovate, end tip; seed coat smooth, cotyledons white, usually single or both. Flowering from April to May, fruit from September to November.

Lemon produced in the south of the Yangtze River in China, native to Southeast Asia, the main origin for the United States, Italy, Spain and Greece.

Lemon because of its taste very acid, liver deficiency pregnant women favorite food, so called mother fruit or mother. Lemon is rich in citric acid, so known as "citric acid warehouse". Its fruit juice is more brittle, rich aroma. Because the taste of special acid, it can only be used as a fine seasoning, used to prepare drinks dishes, cosmetics and medicines. In addition, the lemon is rich in vitamin C, can be phlegm cough, Sheng Jin stomach. For bronchitis, whooping cough, loss of appetite, vitamin deficiency, heat stroke, polydipsia and other symptoms, it is "scurvy" nemesis.