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World of CitrusWorld of CitrusNew Zealand Lemonade
University of California, Riverside — Citrus Variety Collection
https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc4181 (opens in a new tab)
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Practical Organic Living · YouTube · 2024-02-16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQX_1BXOLuc (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: The presenters identify the compared fruit as “New Zealand lemon,” also called “lemonade lemon,” and carry out an unreplicated home-grown fruit comparison. English auto-generated native captions retrieved 2026-09-20; the related raw capture is retained at docs/research/meyer-lemons-2026-09-20/raw/DQX_1BXOLuc.txt. The video does not state location, rootstock, harvest date, sample count beyond the shown fruit, refractometer calibration, or juice preparation.
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Tom McClendon · YouTube · 2024-12-08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d3qbgUFOzM (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: Tom McClendon describes a New Zealand Lemonade fruit from a still-container-grown tree. He calls it pretty juicy and very sweet, with golden color, a solid core, adherent peel, and a clean sweet lemon flavor. The cold-hardiness number mentioned is a guess based on suspected ancestry, not an observed trial.
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TheKiwiGrower · YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEi-P5CuShc (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: The presenter identifies Lemonade fruit at 0:45–1:04 and says the variety arose as a chance seedling in New Zealand. At 1:08–1:59 he describes easy peeling and segment separation, firm individual juice vesicles, a juicy, crunchy and less-drippy texture, and direct taste impressions. He reports having three trees at 2:00–2:12. This is a grower’s mixed-haul account; the exact sampled fruit source and growing conditions are not established. English auto-generated captions cover 0:03–9:18.
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Drank_Juicebox · Reddit
First-harvest grower report; page displays relative “9mo ago” only, with no exact date in captured text. Author describes the fruit and separately reports outdoor zone 9b growing and approximately 30°F experienced; no date, duration, instrument, damage or protection details.
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poncirusguy6b452xx (Steve) · Houzz
https://www.houzz.com/discussions/4996616/new-zealand-lemonade-lemon (opens in a new tab)
Forum thread with relative “8 years ago” timestamp and no exact dates in captured text. This citation covers Steve’s attributed account of four fruit, including his greenest fruit and comparison with Meyer; his own sampling stage and limited tree details are preserved in the dependent note.
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toofarnorth · Citrus Growers Forums (ProBoards) · 2019-08-01
https://citrusgrowersv2.proboards.com/thread/155/new-zealand-lemonade (opens in a new tab)
Citation is based on a passage supplied by the user and attributed to toofarnorth on 2019-08-01; the page was not independently retrieved, so its metadata and surrounding context remain unverified. Do not treat the reported winter minima as measured canopy exposure or a survival threshold.
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Weird Explorer · YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbmH8uhm7uY (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: The presenter compares a New Zealand Lemonade fruit supplied by Madison Citrus Nursery in Georgia with a Japanese Sanbokan fruit. He describes a lemonade aroma and flavor, lemon with a mandarin hint, and says the fruit is very sweet. He gives a subjective “half as sour” as lemon comparison and estimates juice yield as half a glass from half the fruit, without measuring volume. These are impressions from the presented fruit, not standardized taste or juice-volume measurements. English auto-generated captions cover 0:00–9:58 of 9:59.
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My Tropical Fruit Forest Life · YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqgtITqAh7E (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: The grower describes a prolific grafted New Zealand Lemonade tree, fruiting and picking over about two months, with fruit hanging through winter. Comparing greener and overripe fruit, the speaker says the greener fruit has slight tang and the overripe fruit “no sourness”; the informal percentage-like estimates are not measurements or a standardized taste scale. English auto-generated captions cover 0:01–10:02 of 10:07.
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New Zealand Tree Crops Association · 2021-11-08
https://treecrops.org.nz/your-backyard-fruit-bowl-beyond-the-meyer-lemon/ (opens in a new tab)
“Lemonade fruit” heading in “The Kiwi oddities” section. Secondary account describing New Zealand Lemonade’s reported chance-seedling history, easy peeling, juice/use, cropping and winter main crop. The page has conflicting authorship metadata: visible byline Anna-Marie Barnes, CMS metadata Sharon Watt; it says the article was originally published on lifestyleblock.co.nz. Parentage is phrased “thought to be” and remains tentative; no accession, trial or measurement method is given. Unscored taste wording is not imported.
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