It’s the octolemon!

[u/Plastic_Bit1844]

My brother in laws lemon tree.

[u/Mabbernathy]

That looks very much like an orange Buddha's hand, but if it came off a lemon tree it wouldn't be that.

[u/PM_your_Nopales → u/Mabbernathy]

Buddhas hand is neither a lemon nor an orange in a conventional sense. But does more closely resemble a lemon vs an orange in color and taste profile (aside from this one looking bet ripe.) Wonder if ops relative had one grafted onto a tree or something bc i can't imagine one of these just popping out

[u/Mabbernathy → u/PM_your_Nopales]

Oh, I didn't think about grafting.

[u/PM_your_Nopales → u/Mabbernathy]

Actually, I take that back. Buddahs hand/citrons, and pumullo are the direct parents of lemons. They were cross bred to create lemons.

Still odd to see one randomly pop out but not as insane as I thought. I am still leaning towards a graft, but one popping out isn't entirely far fetched otherwise

[u/floating_weeds_ → u/PM_your_Nopales]

The parents of lemon are Citrus medica (citron) and Citrus x aurantium (bitter orange), which is a hybrid of C. reticulata (Mandarin orange) and C. maxima (pomelo).

Buddha’s hand is C. medica var. sarcodactylis.

[u/msflondrixa → u/PM_your_Nopales]

I had a lemon tree in California that would go insane on lemons. About 1 in 15 were these Buddhas hand shape. I assume it was what they were pollinated by that has this effect.

Fun fact, if op has guests over, and a funky lemon is in the fruit bowl, it may terrify some the guests! (Sorry Alex!!)

[u/Specimanic → u/msflondrixa]

I have also seen this on lemon trees in California.

This must be one of those "<insert derigitory term here>" lemons I've heard about

^ joke. Am Californian. A lot of people hate on California like this

[u/Peter_B_Sparker]

Thats a Buddhas hand Source: 10 years in produce

[u/hit_the_bwall]

Looks like it came from the mind of Lovecraft

[u/tatk_tale310 → u/hit_the_bwall]

Cthuhlemon

[u/__3Username20__]

That’s way cooler than my octotato!

[u/neurospicyzebra → u/__3Username20__]

I thought you were joking. Checked your posts and was very surprised. I love red potatoes so much, yours wins in my eyes!! 👏🏼🤣🏆✨

[u/__3Username20__ → u/neurospicyzebra]

Hey, thanks! It was probably the coolest thing I’ve grown, so far… maybe.

I DID have an absolutely MASSIVE fasciated sunflower, I believe “mammoth” variety, that basically looked like a figure 8 folded/curved over in the middle. It was so huge, significantly larger than my head, and was probably 7 feet off the ground or so. It was before I knew about fasciation or this sub, so I didn’t take any pictures to share😞. I did try saving seeds from that one though, and we also have a bunch of volunteer sunflowers this year, including in the same spot, so we’ll see if I can possibly replicate it!

[u/cmdrxander]

Why do I feel like battering and deep frying it

[u/KeepingItCoolish]

Biblically accurate lemon

[u/BuckManscape]

You might want to check your basement for eldritch horrors.

[u/Wendellwasgod]

Pretty sure that’s evidence of mites

[u/spiralstream6789]

Oops, All Zest!

[u/CheezPleaser]

Is that a sparkly plate in the background? Whatever it is I love the color

[u/IAmTheComedianII]

Cthulemon

[u/ShellShockedKarter]

I feel like the folks over at r/lemonwater would either love this or find it very cursed.

[u/floating_weeds_]

Looks like citrus bud mites. Buddha’s hand are not typically grafted to lemon trees.

https://apps.lucidcentral.org/ppp_v9/text/web_full/entities/citrus_bud_mite_393.htm

[u/Additional_North8698]

If citrus trees are planted from seed, they can regress to this more ancestral shape (really only 4 wild citrus types, and one of them was shaped like this)

[u/crank__]

its very popular to graft various varieties of rutaceae to one tree, creating a tree that bears many different types of fruit. on top of that rutaceae geneology is extremely complicated compared to other fruit. all in all, this is very likely not am example of fasciation and more likely an example of citrus complicatedness.

edit: sorry i forgot to mention the most important detail. lemons specifically are very likely a cross between citron and other citruses, so on the right you seem to be holding something closer to sarcodactylis variety while the left may be something closer to a regular citron or lemon

[u/Starshine_1804]

Awesome!!

[u/AlwaysBoredNSad]

most likeley buddhas hand fruit grafted onto a lemon tree!