Have you ever seen a shrub with long green thorns and yellow fruit that looks like lemons? If you answered yes, you have spotted a trifoliate orange plant. This column will describe trifoliate orange ...

Well, “dragon” was a great clue but the photo was a dead giveaway. You were looking at a plant known as Poncirus trifoliata “Flying Dragon” (pon-SIGH-rus tri-fo-lee-AH-ta). This is an unusual cultivar ...

Q What is this and is it edible? I found it growing on a short, thorny tree. We live near Rogers. Trifoliate orange is a hardy, thorny, fruit-bearing tree that grows statewide and tends to colonize ...

In South Louisiana, all of the citrus trees we grow are grafted. So, too, are many other fruit and nut trees, rose bushes and camellia plants. Grafting is a common horticulture technique. It's an ...