“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.
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partially expressing an ancestral form
This is just sciency words for eldritch horror
Could also be a way of calling someone a monkey.
“Looks like you’re partially expressing an ancestral form!”
What
WHATThat’s a goddamn shuttlecock
Pretty sure it’s just fasciation. It’s usually rare so it tends to make them fairly valuable.
The all-skin lemon
I just looked up what these look like on the inside and am quite disappointed
I think you’re lying. I think you are a biologist or at least a citrus expert! Liar!
I have given you the label “lemon fact guy”. Wear it with pride because I mean it well. Thanks for sharing your lemon knowledge
biblically accurate lemon
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!
It’s a keming issue. An o got too close to the l and we ended up with a demon.
Sorry I fuckin lost it at keming
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
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/123925554
Does look kind of similar doesn’t it.
#dontputyourdickinthat
Much like a rat king this should be known as a lemon king
Or Earl of Lemongrab
A Lemperor
Cthulhemon.
Thanks, buttpilgrim.
Lemon flavoured tree cancer
When life gives you lemons…
Demand to see life’s manager.
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!
Is their backyard in Pripyat?
You need a Velas detector to unearth this monstrosity.
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.
Mutant lemon. If it tastes good, you should breed it and create a new product ;)
I think that’s Hermaeus Mora
The Rot