Identification of Lebu from Banglesh food store

[steffengot]

Hello everyone,

I need your help for another citrus identification.
Here are the links to some pictures:













I bought the fruits in a local Bangladesh food shop. And they were sold as Lebu. Lebu is however just the name for lemon in the local language (Bengali language). And it’s hard to find some more information for me so far.
The fruit has a very intensiv smell. Reminds me personally about a citrus hystrix from the smell. A friend of mine from India (west Bengal) told me that it’s a Gondhoraj Lebu. Which means translated from Bengali: aroma king lemon. And it’s used to flavor dishes as well as rice. She however is not an plant expert. Under the name Gondhoraj Lebu, I find pictures of similar fruits and fruits of a different shape. Does anyone know of the Gondhoraj Lebu exist in different varieties? Or has someone heard the name Jara lebu befor? This is also a name which appeared on my searches.
I could say the fruit looks more like a typ of citrus x lemon, and not like a citrus medica typ. Might be of course also a hybrid. The seeds germinates easily and are very similar in appearance to citrus x lemon seedlings. More I can not distinguish yet.
Does anyone know more about this plant? Or even has it in cultivation? Again, it’s a very aromatic fruit and it’s a pitty that the fruit is not more common yet.
Thank you for you help.

[steffengot]

I need to add that the green fruits became more yellow with the time. And just 50% of the fruits had seeds, but then around 15 seeds per fruit.

The taste of the rind was very aromatic and ‘greenish’. A bit bitter, with a strong hystrix touch. The juice was comparable to lemon juice, a bit more exotic with a similar sourness.

[Laaz]

You need to use the actual jpg address. I fixed them for you.

[Laaz]

They are Shasni Lebu.

[mikkel]

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[steffengot]

On some websites it says that Sashni Lebu is a papeda. But so far, the young leaves do not look like a papeda. Is it then right that most (or even all?) Lebu seams to be citrus x lemon varieties? There seams to be lots of different Lebu in different areas of India.

[Sylvain]

On the French forum we already had this discussion (I think it is only for registered: www.agrumes-passion.com/viewtopic.php?f=60&t=5387&start=15).

Most of the citrus from Assam region are classified as lemon for their culinary use, but most of them have non articulated petioles showing their relation with citrons, not lemons.

[steffengot]

I unfortunately don’t know how the flowers look like, but that is in fact an important point. I will have a look on the French forum. Thank you 👍🏻

[steffengot]

Here an update for you all: I got some new Lebu from the Bangladesh food store. They look similar to the already shown pictures from me. And all of them have a slightly different shape, the smell is the same. Very green-ish, aromatic, citrus-like.

I found now the following publication about some lebu (Clombo lemen as they call it):

www.researchgate.net/publication/341579749_Collection_and_evaluation_of_Colombo_lemon_germplasm_at_Narsingdi_region_Bangladesh

They describe that these ‘lemons (citrus limon)’ are propagated by seeds and that both the plants and fruits vary in appearance. That would match with the fact that all bought fruits look different.

But as previously mentioned by you. I might need to wait for the first flower ;-)
The seeds I planted germinated and the young plants thrive in the green house.