Dearborn Heights, MI (Zone 6a) | October 2017 | neutral
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Citrus bergamia, the bergamot orange, is a fragrant citrus fruit the size of an ora...Read Morenge, with a green color similar to a lime.
Genetic research into the ancestral origins of extant citrus cultivars found bergamot orange to be a probable hybrid of Citrus limon and Citrus aurantium.
Extracts have been used to scent food, perfumes, and cosmetics. Use on the skin can increase photosensitivity, resulting in greater damage from sun exposure; excessive consumption can be toxic.
Hawthorne, FL (Zone 8b) | September 2009 | neutral
Never grown it, but I get conflicting reports of hardiness on line, including the claim on Wikipedia that it grows in Georgia (the one in...Read More the US, that is) -- commercially, it's implied. I don't know of any part of Georgia that is zone 9b.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Citrus bergamia, the bergamot orange, is a fragrant citrus fruit the size of an ora...Read More
Never grown it, but I get conflicting reports of hardiness on line, including the claim on Wikipedia that it grows in Georgia (the one in...Read More