Sources

Thornless Mexican lime (opens in a new tab)

University of California, Riverside — Citrus Variety Collection

https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc2683 (opens in a new tab)

Accessed September 18th

Mexican Thornless Lime (opens in a new tab)

UC Master Gardeners of Solano County — Under the Solano Sun · 2020-01-16

https://ucanr.edu/blog/under-solano-sun/article/mexican-thornless-lime (opens in a new tab)

Paragraphs 2–5 of the print rendering contain a first-person account of one young standard-form thornless Mexican lime chosen for a small yard, including its fruit and Benicia growing context. The article provides no individual author byline; image credit is not treated as authorship. General Mexican-lime size and frost guidance is distinct from the contributor's observed plant.

Accessed September 27th

Bearss Lime vs Key Limes vs Meyer Lemon Tasting (opens in a new tab)

TD Homestead · YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az9TNxehJ-U (opens in a new tab)

Summary from transcript: The presenter identifies one thorned and one thornless Key lime in a four-fruit comparison. He reports seeds in both Key lime samples at 9:36. At 13:37–13:50, he says the thornless fruit seemed a little more bitter than the thorned one but allows that it may have been greener; this is a subjective comparison of two individual fruits, not a bitterness score or cultivar-wide difference. Spoken setting/date only; no verified upload date. English auto-generated captions cover 0:07–15:22 of 15:29.

Accessed September 28th