Citrus latipes — Edible Plant Database

What to Eat

Edible parts: Fruit, Fruit skin- spice

The fruit can be eaten fresh or processed, and young green fruit can be pickled. The dried skin of the fruit is used as a spice.

Where to Find It

It is a temperate plant. It can tolerate cold.

Asia, India, Northeastern India,

Countries: United Arab Emirates, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Brunei, Bhutan, China, Georgia, Indonesia, Israel, India, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, North Korea, South Korea, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Laos, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Mongolia, Maldives, Malaysia, Nepal, Oman, Philippines, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Syria, Thailand, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Taiwan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen

How to Identify

A shrub. The fruit are large like a grapefruit. The flesh is white and seedy. It is very acid and spicy.

Medicinal Uses

Fruits of C. latipes are used medicinally in Northeastern India "to treat stone problem".Locally, it is known as "Soh-Shyrkhoit" in the Khasi language (Soh = fruit, Shyrkhoit = monkey), meaning the fruit of a monkey.

Wikipedia

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Citrus latipes, commonly called "Khasi papeda", is sometimes mistakenly identified as Kaffir lime (C. hystrix). Native to Northeast India, the khasi papeda is a small, thorny tree that closely resembles both kaffir limes and ichang papedas (C. cavaleriei). Though rarely eaten, and extremely rare in cultivation, the fruit is edible.

Other Information

It is cultivated.

Notes

There are 20 Citrus species. Several hybrids have been formed.

Names & Synonyms

Hatkora, Hatkorathei, Soh-heh

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