Other Yuzu (Lemon-Mandarin Fruit) Seeds

5 Yuzu (Lemon-Mandarin fruit) seeds

Yuzu is known as the world’s ugliest but most expensive Lemon Mandarin fruit.

It’s the oddest lemon-like fruit which is prickly to pick and has a flavour difficult to describe, but yuzu is highly prized, particularly in Japanese, Korean and Chinese cuisine. It looks like lemon but tastes like mandarin orange and grapefruit, and is grown on small trees with long thorns.  In Australia, while most citrus fetches prices less than $500 a tonne, yuzu costs as much as $25,000 a tonne, or $25 per kilogram at the farm gate.  Growers have to wear heavy-duty welding gloves to pluck the small yellow fruit off the thorny trees.