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[-] grue@lemmy.world 85 points 1 month ago

"Normal" lemons are mutants. They're a hybrid of two different Citrus species, citron and bitter orange, that both look weirder than lemons. In fact, one variety of citron, Citrus medica var. sarcodactylis, is nicknamed "Buddha's hand" and looks like this:

So what it appears (to me, at least, as someone who isn't a biologist or citrus expert) is that that lemon happened to mutate again in such a way that it started partially expressing an ancestral form.

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

How can I unsubscribe from Lemon Facts?

[-] grue@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago

I don't know when it's gonna be and I don't make any promises, but one day you'll be browsing Lemmy minding your own business, and -- BAM! -- lemon fact. There's nothing you can do about it.

(...Well, except maybe staying away from topics in which it would be relevant to post facts about lemons. That'd probably work.)

[-] Live_your_lives@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Can you give more your subscription? I'd like more Lemon Facts.

[-] arandomthought@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

Life will give you lemons wheter you want it or not. There's no unsubscribing.

[-] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 month ago

partially expressing an ancestral form

This is just sciency words for eldritch horror

[-] Frittiert@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

Could also be a way of calling someone a monkey.

"Looks like you're partially expressing an ancestral form!"

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago

That's a goddamn shuttlecock

[-] watersnipje 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago
[-] soliloquy@startrek.website 3 points 1 month ago

I just looked up what these look like on the inside and am quite disappointed

[-] sgnl@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Pretty sure it's just fasciation. It's usually rare so it tends to make them fairly valuable.

[-] arandomthought@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

I think you're lying. I think you are a biologist or at least a citrus expert! Liar!

[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have given you the label "lemon fact guy". Wear it with pride because I mean it well. Thanks for sharing your lemon knowledge

[-] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 36 points 1 month ago

biblically accurate lemon

[-] teft@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

When life gives you eldritch lemons, don’t make eldritch lemonade. Make life take the eldritch lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn eldritch lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give teft eldritch lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna sacrifice your family! With the eldritch lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible eldritch lemon that burns your house down!

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

It’s a keming issue. An o got too close to the l and we ended up with a demon.

[-] Banana@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Sorry I fuckin lost it at keming

[-] adj16@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I’m no lemonologist but it looks like it could maybe be a very severe case of Citrus Bud Mites: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/384904-Aceria-sheldoni

[-] Beryl@jlai.lu 7 points 1 month ago

Cthulhemon.

[-] federalreverse@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago

Thanks, buttpilgrim.

[-] undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Lemon flavoured tree cancer

[-] ug01x@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Much like a rat king this should be known as a lemon king

[-] ech@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago
[-] Rusty@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Or Earl of Lemongrab

[-] jwt@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

When life gives you lemons...

Demand to see life's manager.

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Don't stop there.

Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

[-] dance_ninja@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Lemon of the Crucible

Equip to make lemonade.

A vestige of the crucible of primordial life. Born partially of devolution, it was considered a signifier of the divine in ancient times, but is now increasingly disdained as an impurity as civilization has advanced.

[-] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Mutant lemon. If it tastes good, you should breed it and create a new product ;)

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago
[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I think it ate the lemon stealing whores.

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