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Grown in a 3-gallon pot or 5" x 12" Primo size. Full-size, large edible leaves, and fruits; Fruit, rind, juice, and leaves are used in Thai, Laotian, Malaysian, and Cambodian cooking. Cut leaves in summer and store them in the freezer for your cooking all year round.
Grafted semi-dwarf Thai Kaffir Lime tree is good for containers. They can be planted in the ground in zones 9-10. It should be the container plant for the other zones. Keep them outdoors from late May to October for the colder zones and put them indoors when the temperature is less than 40 degrees.
3ft+ trees, The example of trees we ship is shown in the last 3 pictures as 2/2024.
Fragrant plants, and dark green leaves, smell good in delicious meals, and in your house.
Some trees are fruiting Picture and content credit - itsnature.org The kaffir lime (Citrus Hystrix) is a rough, warty green fruit that has an exotic aroma and it is famously known for its double-shaped leaves, and both the fruit and its leaves are used for cooking to increase the scent of dishes. The leaves of this fruit are egg-shaped and its color is dark green on top but lighter green at the bottom. Kaffir limes have a lot of health benefits and are used to do more than just cooking. Some would opt to use kaffir lime for medicinal purposes. There are also cultures in certain countries that use the fruit for spiritual purposes. Kaffir lime can be found in Laos, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia, and thus, they are mainly used in South-East Asian cuisines. In Thailand, the kaffir lime leaves are widely famous when cooking their famous delicacy dishes. Thai cooking uses leaves in Tom Kha (soup), Tom Yum (soup), Todman (shrimp or fish cake), Panang (curry), Chiangmai Noddle, Chicken Satay, Prik-Khing curry, and some other curry dishes and hot-spicy stir-fried. It is also mainly used in Lao curry pastes and Malaysian and Burmese cuisines. The fruit and the leaves both bring out more zest into any cuisine and increase the scent as well. Many use the kaffir lime for spicy dishes as the taste and the smell could complement perfectly with spicy foods. Generally, kaffir lime contains many nutrition and health benefits. It contains tannin, triterpenoids, and saponin which are good for skin growth especially the leaves. Some use them for hair treatment and treatment for hair follicles. Combining with normal shampoo, people would just lather up their hair and massage their scalp in order for the lime extract would seep through the skin and repair the hair scalp which ultimately would cure the root of each strand of hair which will appear much shinier and healthier. The kaffir lime also cures coldness and lethargic and its bitter taste too can help with blood circulation.
