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Australian Desert Limes

From the Australian outback comes an extraordinary native citrus — hardy, productive and intensely flavoured.

But desert lime may be much more than an interesting Australian fruit.

Its potential is only beginning to be explored.

We have spent years selecting and developing superior desert lime trees from naturally occurring Australian populations. The result is Abundance and Standout — two PBR-registered selections for growers who want to start with the right trees.

Discover Desert Lime

For your Garden

Grow something genuinely different.

Desert lime is an Australian citrus with attractive growth, remarkable hardiness and fruit with an intense flavour unlike ordinary citrus.

Imagine growing your own tree and picking your own desert limes.

THE ANSWER: Abundance and Standout Desert Lime

Abundance Desert Lime

Standout Desert Lime

Commercial Opportunities

For growers, researchers and product developers.

What could be developed from an Australian citrus whose potential has barely been explored?

Desert lime has established food uses, but its distinctive characteristics may offer opportunities for new ingredients, beverages, extracts, natural products and other applications.

The industry is still at an early stage.

Could desert lime become a new Australian crop?

Explore the Commercial Potential

Meet Abundance and Standout

Two selected desert lime trees. One remarkable opportunity.

Wild desert lime populations contain considerable variation.

Over years of harvesting, observing and growing desert lime, we identified trees with characteristics worth preserving and developing.

We selected two outstanding trees. Abundance and Standout are now PBR-registered selections.

They give home gardeners and commercial growers the opportunity to begin with known, selected plant material rather than an ordinary seedling.

Abundance

A selected desert lime with exceptional fruiting characteristics.

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Standout

A distinctive selected desert lime with characteristics that set it apart.
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    Why Grow Desert Lime?

    Australian.

    A genuine Australian native citrus with a remarkable history of adaptation to our inland environment.

    Hardy.

    A tree suited to conditions that challenge many conventional citrus varieties.

    Productive.

    A mature tree can produce an abundance of small, intensely flavoured fruit. Different This is not another orange, lemon or lime. It is something uniquely Australian.

    Full of possibilities.

    Desert lime has traditional and contemporary food uses — and its wider commercial potential is only beginning to be investigated.

    From the wild to Abundance and Standout.

    Our story began with naturally occurring desert lime trees in Queensland.

    Over many years we harvested fruit, observed individual trees and began to recognise differences between them.

    That led to a program of selection and propagation.

    Today, Abundance and Standout represent the next step: selected Australian desert lime trees developed for people who want to grow and explore the potential of this remarkable citrus.

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    Ready to grow desert lime?

    Whether you are planting one tree in your garden or investigating a commercial opportunity, we can help you start with the right plant material.

    Grow one. Grow many.

    Explore what desert lime could become.

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    The opportunity is desert lime.

    The starting point is the right tree.

    Abundance and Standout