True Name/ common/ slang names:
 Sweet limes – Citrus limetta
 India calls them mousambi and incorporates them in a lot of their cuisine.

Description of look and flavor:
 You could say that sweet limes are like little Napoleons.  They are small, staying under 8m typically, but they are defensive, having stiff thorns, and they pack a mean punch, with their lip-smacking clench of sweet and tart that won’t let you go. 
 The fruit has green skin that ripens to an orangey- yellow and is football shaped, usually smaller than  a baseball, with fragrant green-segmented pulp.

Growth Period/ harvest –
 These grow well in the moist uplands of the Galapagos and will be sustainable in most other citrus areas.  Many mediterranean and South Asian countries grow and use the sweet lime.  The harvest is in the winter and spring only.  Maybe if demand grows they’ll create a version that grows all year long or they’ll transplant them into a climate where the seasons are reversed.

Nutritional info –
 Limonoids are excellent cleaners and protectors of our lungs.  So on top of the vitamin c and other citrus typical nutrients, sweet limes can give your body that extra cleaning everyone needs every once in a while.

Other uses –
 In India, patients with a fever or suffering from jaundice have felt relief from the cooling effects of sweet limes.

History –
 India and Asia are the birthmothers of sweet limes and the fruit can be dated there as far back as 300 B.C.  The first cultivation we show at around 20 B.C. in Italy.

Interesting facts/ misnomers -
 Citrus fruit gets a separate classification from other fruit.  They are called hesperidia, which is essentially a leathery-skinned berry with lots of seeds and soft flesh.
 British people get the nickname “limey” because of all the lime and other citrus trees they used to plant along trade routes to easily remedy scurvy.