Citrus Fruits

Try to name the most important species of citrus.

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First submitted	January 30, 2013
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Average score	41.7%
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Scientific Name	Fruit	Main Part Eaten	Hint
Citrus aurantifolia	Key Lime	juice	popular in Florida; used in pies
Citrus maxima	Pomelo	flesh	the largest citrus
Citrus medica	Citron	rind	candied and then used in fruitcakes
Citrus reticulata	Mandarin Orange	flesh, juice	popular in China; often canned
Citrus × aurantium	Sour Orange	zest, essential oil	used in preserves and perfumes
Citrus × hystrix	Makrut Lime	leaves, rind	popular in Thailand; used in curry
Citrus × latifolia	(Persian) Lime	juice	green and sour
Citrus × limon	Lemon	juice, zest	yellow and sour
Citrus × limonia	Rangpur Lime	juice, zest	popular in Bengal; used in mixed drinks
Citrus × paradisi	Grapefruit	flesh, juice	bitter; eaten at breakfast
Citrus × sinensis	(Sweet) Orange	juice, flesh	the world's most popular fruit
Fortunella japonica	Kumquat	whole fruit	bite-sized; can cross with Citrus

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69 Comments

Level 63

Oct 19, 2012

Wow who know there were so many citrus fruits- obviously not me only got the 5 I've actually heard of!

Level 57

Mar 16, 2013

hey me too. only got five and im proud of it. acutally i only like 2 of the 5 i got.

Level 61

Mar 16, 2013

I got eight and was surprised tangerine wasn't on there. I thought Citron was only an Absolut flavor!

Level 45

Mar 18, 2013

Citrus taxonomy is complicated. There are hundreds of varieties, all of which are able to interbreed with one another. I decided to accept "Tangerine" as a synonym of "Mandarin" rather than listing it separately.

Level 68

Apr 12, 2019

What about "Citronella"

Level 56

Jan 3, 2022

That's not related to citrus, even though it sounds like it

Level 50

Mar 18, 2013

Do you accept bitter orange for sour one?

Level 45

Mar 24, 2013

Yes. Also "marmalade orange", "Seville orange", and a few others. I'm a big believer in synonyms.

Level 54

Jun 4, 2017

I knew that orange as Bergamot orange, but it wasn't accepted.

Level 25

Mar 18, 2013

It took me a minute to get citron (I couldn't remember the English name). Got nine including that one though, and the rest i've never heard of.

Level 14

Mar 24, 2013

Watching all those cooking shows pays off...

Level 37

Apr 27, 2013

i feel stupid. i only got four.:(

Level 26

May 16, 2013

No satsuma :(

Level 45

May 16, 2013

With hundreds of citrus fruits to choose from, I kind of had to rely on Wikipedia's list of which ones were most noteworthy.

Level 73

Oct 16, 2013

I put 'kaffir lime' and 'Makrut Lime' came up. I'm happy to have discovered another word for it; I've always been uncomfortable with the word 'kaffir' because of its association with discrimination under apartheid.

Level 57

Mar 5, 2014

Ugh, should have gotten rangpur because Tanqueray Rangpur is one of my most favorite spirits in the world.

Level 67

Apr 17, 2014

Uh. I'd heard of bitter orange and key lime before, but I never thought they were actually different varieties. As for citron, didn't even think of it; that's the French word for "lemon" and I didn't know it meant something in English. What do you know!

Level 45

Apr 18, 2014

I'm kind of surprised that so few people are getting citron. Am I the only person here who likes fruitcake?

Level 48

Apr 20, 2014

You're the only person anywhere who likes fruitcake.

Level 74

May 12, 2014

I love fruitcake, especially with a cup of coffee on Christmas. In fact, I would like to start a fruitcake recycling project. Send me all your unwanted fruitcakes and I'll see that they find happy homes. (Unless you prefer to regift them yourself year after year.)

Level 83

Oct 16, 2015

Most people I know just put mixed peel in fruitcake. I don't know how many people actually know what was peeled.

Level 51

Dec 25, 2016

I love fruitcake! My partner made one last week. The heavier the better as it usually indicates more fruit in it. Got to be moist also. I think most of the bad rap comes from dry, low density fruit cakes.

Level 74

Feb 28, 2018

I've only had candied marmalade orange rind in fruitcake. I knew all but one of these after rooting through some very old, cobwebby culinary school knowledge.

Level 71

Nov 19, 2024

In Judaism this is called an "etrog" and people might know it by that name. Or a physical description, since it looks very unique. Never heard of it in connection with fruitcake, which is only uncommonly thought of or eaten these days anyway.

Level 85

Jun 24, 2015

Perhaps one of the few who will admit to it! They get a bad name (in the US at least) because for every good rendition of fruitcake, there are literally dozens that are truly awful.

Level 70

Jun 3, 2017

I would have thought American women were better cooks, most UK women can make a good fruit cake for Christmas. (with rum etc..... yummy)

Level 90

Jul 8, 2021

Most Americans buy pre-packaged food. And are too lazy to cook or even set portions for kids' snacks. They just buy a dozen little packages. As someone from the UK, just remember the Stig's American cousin. That's the clue.

Level 48

Apr 20, 2014

What about buddha hands?

Level 45

Apr 20, 2014

They're a variety of citron. I suppose I can accept it as a synonym.

Level 76

May 17, 2014

I got 9 and am surprised as I never knew there was so many different lemons and limes. I guess when lime didn't show up for Thailand I had to put in Kaffir and same for lemon and Florida, remembered it being called Key Lemon pie. Still missed citron (I think it's called something else completely in my language, something akin to pomeranian? or then that's something else?), sour orange and Rangpur lime. Live and learn :)

Level 74

Sep 26, 2017

It's usually called Key Lime pie - Key limes are very small limes, about an inch or two across, but they turn yellow when ripe.

Level 49

Nov 5, 2014

Thanks for using makrut lime. I was really happy to see the preferred terminology here.

Level 74

Feb 13, 2015

Got 'em all except Rangpur lime.

Level 39

Apr 25, 2015

In my part of the world tangelos are more popular than most on this list.

Level 73

Jun 24, 2015

Are ugli fruits a citrus fruit?

Level 85

Jun 24, 2015

Grapefruit isn't bitter; it's sour.

Level 77

May 28, 2020

It's both.

Level 44

Jun 24, 2015

i am 7 and i hav just done my first time on this quiz and i have got five right lime grapefruit orange lemon and mandarin right and to was fun and easy for the ones i know and i didm't know what a key lime a pomelo a citron a sour orange a makrut rangpur lime kumquat is you know best

Level 44

Jul 18, 2015

forgot grape fruit silly .>..

Level 73

Nov 11, 2015

Great quiz. If you're going to accept "bergamot orange" for sour orange, then you might as well accept "bergamot" on its own.

Level 23

Nov 19, 2015

why thank you comment section. I wouldn't have gotten any but lemon and lime without you. matter of fact, i tried not using it for this quiz and failed miserably.

Level 74

Sep 26, 2017

So you cheated and that made you a success?

Level 75

Nov 24, 2015

Great that different variants of the name were available (like Seville for sour)

I had no idea a key lime was a type of fruit. I always thought the Key part was another ingredient!

Level 39

Mar 29, 2016

It really helps if you know parts of Latin

Level 82

Sep 6, 2016

Well that settles it, I'm making Thai for dinner.

Level 81

Oct 12, 2016

I had no idea pomelo was a distinct fruit in English - it just means grapefruit in Spanish, at least in Spain.

Level 72

Dec 17, 2018

yea and citron means lemon in some lanuages

Level 46

Jun 5, 2017

What about ugli fruit?

Level 70

Sep 26, 2017

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Level 24

Jul 26, 2017

5/5 points for getting 9/12, nice

Level 78

Jul 26, 2017

When you get 5 and that's average... O_O

Level 70

Sep 26, 2017

Are oranges the world's most popular fruit? What is this based on? I have definitely heard tomatoes called this before, and I am fairly sure apples are more eaten too. This list puts oranges 5th. https://keepfresh.com.au/most-popular-fruit-in-the-world-2/

Level 78

Nov 4, 2017

Possibly the only quiz where a 75% gets you 5 points....

Level 88

Aug 31, 2022

I got 9 out of 12 so I instantly retook the quiz, not realizing I already had the 5 points haha

Level 40

Nov 4, 2017

only 9% gets citron even though its name is almost same with citrus and i would call it "main" citrus fruit.

Level 72

Dec 17, 2018

maybe because lemon is the translation for citron in some languages, and you wouldnt think it would be on there again.

Level 73

Dec 27, 2017

Tangerine!

Level 75

Jan 25, 2018

Well, I'm shocked - I had always thought that pineapple is a citrus fruit but apparently not

Level 66

Apr 12, 2019

This quiz uses outdated taxonomy. Kumquats now have the binomial "Citrus japonica." Also, this quiz should really include the Australian endemic species like finger lime and desert lime, as their former genus Microcitrus was reincorporated into Citrus.

Level 74

Apr 12, 2019

"Also, this quiz should really include the Australian endemic species like finger lime and desert lime" Why?

Level 57

Aug 12, 2019

Add blood orange and clementine maybe? At least in Europe they are way more common than a lot of the ones listed.

Level 67

Jun 30, 2020

Bergamot?

Level 62

Dec 11, 2020

lol i only got pomelo and orange

Level 35

Dec 19, 2020

You could add Sweet lime(or sweet lemon) which is Citrus Limetta. It's a very common citrus fruit atleast in Southeast Asia. Also popularly known as mosambi.

Level 80

Jan 29, 2022

Was hoping to see two of my favorite citrus fruits--ugli/unique and sumo citrus.

Level 44

Jun 28, 2022

Chinotto? It's a very bitter type of orange typical of southern Italy. Its scientific name is Citrus × myrtifolia

Level 28

Jan 17, 2023

please accept kamquat and makroot ;-;

Level 78

Nov 22, 2023

It would be awesome to see kalamansi/calamansi (citrus microcarpa) on here. They're from the Philippines but you can sometimes find them in the US.

Level 35

Jan 16, 2024

i only got five ;(

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