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World of CitrusWorld of CitrusBuddha's Hand Citron
Givaudan Citrus Variety Collection at UCR
https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc3768 (opens in a new tab)
UCR's profile for accession CRC 3768 (PI 539445; VI 369) describes Buddha's Hand citron as a fingered citron with unknown parents. It reports a fragrant yellow rind and solid albedo, with no juicy pulp or seeds. UCR records budwood imported from Hawaii via CCPP in 1975, with exocortis later removed by shoot-tip grafting. Its listed rootstocks are Yuma Ponderosa lemon and citremon; they are not its parents. The specific Chinese form is unidentified. These details describe this accession and are not necessarily universal to every plant called Buddha's Hand.
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Citrus Growers Forum · 2010-01-05
http://citrusgrowersstatic.chez.com/web/viewtopic0c58-3.php (opens in a new tab)
Archived one-page discussion containing individual reports: bastrees (2010-01-05) says a received Buddha's Hand fruit gave the room and shipping box a strong lingering fragrance; Millet (2010-01-06) says a former tree's fruit was not edible but gives no accession; A.T. Hagan (2010-01-06) reports several fragrant fruits and demanding care. The page also reproduces third-party articles, which are not treated as firsthand forum observations here. None of the reports identifies an accession or clone.
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fruits_and_food · Reddit, r/Citrus · 2024-03-21
https://www.reddit.com/r/Citrus/comments/1bkdfqc/buddhas_hand_fruit_question/ (opens in a new tab)
The original poster reports an indoor Buddha's Hand tree by south-facing windows and under a grow light since September (year unstated), with vigorous growth, 60+ flowers, repeated buds, and small fruit that fell or did not perceptibly enlarge. In a same-day reply, the poster says the tree is grafted on Flying Dragon rootstock and still grows quickly. This is one plant with no identified accession, source tree, location, or link to UCR CRC 3768; respondent care suggestions are general advice, not trial results.
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ShamrockgirlWorld · 2020-03-11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOxJLEE07Mw (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: The presenter gives a general description of Buddha's Hand as lacking juice or seeds, with fingers made mostly of rind and a center of bitter white pith, and recommends culinary and scent uses. No particular plant or fruit sample is identified. The statement that it is not for direct consumption is general advice and differs from tasting videos that describe eating rind or pith.
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GoldenGully · 2021-10-18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovIQeHIvanY (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: On a first-time tasting of one supermarket fruit, the presenter says it is lemon-like, mostly lemon-flavored, neither sour nor sweet, less bitter than expected from lemon peel, and all skin and white pith with no flesh. This is one unidentified specimen and an unscored subjective report. The video's 7.4/10 remark rates appearance, not taste.
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Brandon Ahmaud · 2023-01-08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T_KOONUcl8 (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: In a first-time tasting, the presenter calls the fruit bittersweet and floral and says the pith is not bitter and can be used raw or cooked. This is a subjective, unscored report about one unidentified fruit; no juice result or numeric measurement is given. Captions after 0:34 are garbled.
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Arizona Fruit Trees · 2019-12-09
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTZKQdtX_jc (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: The Phoenix grower reports two Buddha's Hand plants and says the fruit consists of skin and pith, which he uses for rind oil alongside juice from ordinary lemons. On one tree he contrasts open-finger fruit with a closed-hand fruit he says appears about once a year. He reports that a shaded plant does better than another in full sun and describes the crop as less cold-tolerant than some citrus, but gives no measured comparison or minimum temperature. These reports do not identify an accession or clone.
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Weird Explorer · 2015-06-28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK8t0soYguc (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: In Kuala Lumpur, the presenter bought a large yellow Buddha's Hand fruit after most market fruits he saw were smaller and green. His specimen was partly deteriorated, including at the finger tips. He observed no edible pulp, tasted the rind and pith, and described the rind as lemon-like with slight soapiness, less strong in flavor, less sour and less bitter than lemon, and the pith as sweet and crisp. These are subjective observations of one market specimen, not an identified accession or clone; no juice test or numeric taste score is reported.
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