Stats

Lifespan: 50-100 yrs
Size: Medium
Diet: Photosynthetic
Biome: Tropical forest
Range: Southeast Asia
Movement: Sessile
Breeding: Seeds
Defense: Spines
Status: Uncommon

About

An evergreen citrus tree producing the familiar sweet orange fruit, thought to be a hybrid of pomelo and mandarin first cultivated in southern China and now grown across the world's subtropics. A single mature tree can yield hundreds of fruits in a season, with blossoms and ripening fruit often appearing on the branches at the same time.

Life cycle

1.
seed
A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
2.
sprout
A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
3.
sapling
A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
4.
mature
Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Sapindales
Family: Rutaceae
Genus: Citrus