Bearss Lime
Supplies Loads of Delicious Fruit Year-Round
Its crisp, clean flavor packs just the right punch for everything from drinks to chocolates.
- Genus: Citrus
- Species: aurantifolia
- Variety: 'Bearss'
- Item Form: Tree Sleeve
- Zone: 9 - 10
- Bloom Start To End: Early Spring - Mid Spring
- Habit: Upright
- Plant Height: 20 ft - 25 ft
- Plant Width: 15 ft - 20 ft
- Additional Characteristics: Edible, Flower, Fragrance, Indoor Growing
- Bloom Color: White
- Foliage Color: Dark Green
- Light Requirements: Full Sun
- Moisture Requirements: Moist, well-drained
- Soil Tolerance: Normal, loamy, Sandy
- Uses: Border, Containers, Cuisine, Ornamental, Specimen
- Restrictions:
*Due to state restrictions we cannot ship to the following:
California, Canada, Arizona, Guam, Hawaii, Florida, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Texas, Alaska - show more
This self-pollinating California native is a fast grower, supplying loads of delicious fruit year-round, most heavily in winter in California and other warm regions. Its fruit is green-skinned with green flesh, although the skin yellows somewhat as it matures. It also offers lush, deep green foliage and fragrant white flowers that bloom in early spring. Its larger fruit size (6 cm in diameter), hardiness, lack of seeds and thorns, and longer fruit shelf life, make this lime extremely popular on the commercial market. It takes well to being grown in containers, as long as it is brought indoors when temperatures drop below freezing, so it provides delicious ripe fruit even in cooler coastal areas. Zones 9-11 (or in containers in any zone).
How many years before fruiting plants bear their first crop?
For fruiting plants such as blueberry, raspberry, blackberry, fig, honeyberry, cranberry, and grape, it takes 2 years to bear the first crop. That does not mean you may not get some fruit before then. Depending on the size and maturity of the plant shipped, you may get at least a few pieces of fruit or a small quantity produced the first year. But, by the second year, you should have your first real crop of fruit to enjoy and fruit production will increase every year thereafter.This self-pollinating California native is a fast grower, supplying loads of delicious fruit year-round, most heavily in winter in California and other warm regions. Its fruit is green-skinned with green flesh, although the skin yellows somewhat as it matures. It also offers lush, deep green foliage and fragrant white flowers that bloom in early spring. Its larger fruit size (6 cm in diameter), hardiness, lack of seeds and thorns, and longer fruit shelf life, make this lime extremely popular on the commercial market. It takes well to being grown in containers, as long as it is brought indoors when temperatures drop below freezing, so it provides delicious ripe fruit even in cooler coastal areas. Zones 9-11 (or in containers in any zone).