# Someone Needs to Invent **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 31, 2022, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-needs-to-invent/958689 "2022-01-31T16:20:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 227
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2022, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-needs-to-invent/958689/227 "2022-03-01T21:00:54Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > We need a lime tree that grows limes the size of navel oranges and with the sugar content of a ripe banana. Of course, the regular lime flavor will remain, just much sweeter. > > Yum. There _are_, however, lemons like that, called Meyer lemons. My neighbor has such a lemon tree. We had an entire thread about that. I’ve never seen or heard of these lemons elsewhere, and I’ve never heard of them in stores. > [@My neighbor's lemon tree .](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-neighbors-lemon-tree/932810): > > My neighbor has a lemon tree that produces lemons unlike others I’ve seen (or tasted). Some nearby neighbors think it’s a distinct variety of lemon, others think it must be some lemon/orange hybrid. I wonder if any Dopers know of this kind of lemon? The lemons are nearly spherical, almost-but-not-quite like oranges. They are definitely lemon-yellow. They taste like lemons, but sweet enough to eat straight, like an orange. They are somewhat lemonade-sweet (but not too sweet) and somewhat le… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/someone-needs-to-invent/958689)._