Yes – ISTR reading in John McPhee’s Oranges that commercial orange growers in Florida do exactly that – their orange trees are grafted onto lemon rootstock. As I recall, McPhee even mentioned the possibility of grafting multiple citrus tees together, producing multiple varieties of fruit on the same plant.
Count me as another who will eat lemons, either straight or (especially) with a touch of salt. I’d love to have a lemon tree and a lime tree; I’d probably say tangerines third, for something more ‘traditional’ to eat.
I’d also have a Buddha’s Hand, citron. I had seen one in the distressed plants at Lowes but didn’t buy it, then after reading about them I decided to go back for it anx it was gone. The fruit are mostly all rind and weird shaped. It’s used as a flavoring and you can even use the whole fruits as potpourri.
A Persimmon. Actually, I just planted a Mexican Lime Saturday, but that I put into a large pot. The best spot in the tard I’m saving for a winter planting of a Fuyu Persimmon.
We had a couple satsumas in the yard in SE Texas, and it was cool to have citrus trees in flower and producing fruit. There was a lot of fruit, in fact more than we wanted to eat. We made some juice, but it was more trouble than it was worth.
Right now I have a few potted citrus, including a Ponderosa lemon that occasionally produces enormous fruit on a small plant. If I lived in a tropical/frostfree climate and had room for citrus in my yard I’d choose a grapefruit or orange of an unusual type not available in supermarkets. My preference though would be to grow weird non-citrus.
Gotta ask, Jackmannii… Clematis, right?
As a matter of fact…we DID have fresh squeezed lemonade that came from my FILs house in Redlands, CA that we picked back on Memorial Day when we visited him. His house is across the street from a mature orange grove and his property has a lemon, lime, orange, avocado, and apricot tree that we pick freely from whenever we visit.
About three miles away from him is a business building that we go to almost on a weekly basis that has a very mature lemon tree (in their atrium) that produces the most big, beautiful lemons I’ve ever seen, and with an old fruit picker pole, you are allowed to take a handful home.
So yes, we love to make lemonade, lemon marangue pies, lemon tarts, lemon pepper fish and chicken marinades, lemon…
Yuck. I don’t like citrus much so I wouldn’t plant any of them. We have 2 peach trees in the backyard that gets overflowing with fruit but I don’t like peaches much either. Parents harvest them and eat them or give them to neighbors
I like watermelons but they don’t grow on trees. And cantalope. Damn nature.
Lemon.
I use lemons in cooking, and yes, if there were more than I could use that way, I would be very happy to make lemonade.
Orange and lime would be fun to have as well, but I’d take the lemon first.
I make iced tea in pitchers for dinner, and always go pluck a lemon or two off my tree for it. We haven’t bought a lemon in well over a decade. We also have some weird orange-like fruit tree (not an orange tree) which produces fruit I don’t like especially.
We also have a nice rosemary bush when we need fresh rosemary for recipes.
Lemon’s my choice because I use them a lot in cooking - lemon’s my second favourite flavour after chocolate. And I make lemonade. And this great sponge pudding… and lemon icing for cupcakes… oh man, I have to get a lemon tree this winter. To me, it makes more sense to have a tree of something you can harvest en masse and make stuff out of, rather than having tons of grapefruit or something.
I’ve seen a three-citrus tree produced commercially. IIRC, it was tangerine, grapefruit and lemon. I’m sure it’d be possible to do yourself if you know how to graft. You’d just have to be organised enough to keep pruning it so one doesn’t take over!
Man, that would be so awesome. A whole tree is too much of that kind of fruit for a family to use, but maybe a tree with two branches of oranges, a branch each of lemon, lime, grapefruit and tangerine. WANT.
I also want this mutant tree, just to say I have it! 
Lemon tree.
I love fresh lemonade. I hate the canned stuff. Lemons are expensive up here so I’m not sick of them. I do however have way too many apples which have to be cleaned up off the ground. My brother has too many cherries because he has a cherry tree. Any tree you plant will produce more than a household is willing to eat. I don’t care for any other citrus so your planting me a lemon tree. I want pineapple plants. I’d forgo the lemon tree for a number of pineapple plants.
Pomelo. Mmmm, I’m pretty certain I could eat all the fruit.
I am presently growing a kaffir lemon tree and just yesterday I planted many seeds. I got addicted to some Thai nuts flavored with kaffir. Its aroma is heavenly. (Just in case: It’s “Blue Elephant Thai Nuts”).
Do you mean kaffir limes? Or is there a kaffir lemon too?
You have what my broker used to call a delightful problem, choosing among wonderful options.
A tree is a long-term decision, though, so I’ll tell you of a drawback to grapefruit. I love the stuff, but I recently figured out I can never eat another grapefruit. I take a cholesterol-reducing drug, and eating grapefruit would render the drug useless for more than a day and a half. Maybe you don’t take such a drug now, but years later your doctor might make your grapefruit tree into a bitter reminder of something you can’t eat. :smack:
Big lemon lover here. Cut it in half, use juice to flavor soup or sauce, or suck it dry, then rip it into shards and eat fruit remains off the rind. Then, eat the rind. Mmmmmm, vitamin C.
I read somewhere that through grafting, you could grow a tree that grows all sorts of citrus fruit, oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruits, etc. Is this true? If so, that’s for me!