Varieties and rootstocks
Over the past twenty years growers and nurserymen have selected a range of finger lime plants with different characteristics directly from the bush or from seedling populations. These selections have then been used as the ‘mother plants’ for vegetatively propagating identical new plants.
All commercial citrus trees in Australia are propagated vegetatively using budwood, which ensures the new trees are identical to the original mother plant. Citrus trees grown from seed are not used because they