(a) IDENTIFICATION:
Local
name: Igbo: Oromankirishe
Common
name: Lime
Botanical
name: Citrus aurantifola
Family:
Rutacceae
Habitat:
It is a cultivated plant found mainly in orchards and compounds.
(b) MORPHOCOGY
Habit:
It is an evergreen aromatic and granular shrub with irregular branching. It has
a brown smoothies bark with pale yellow. The twigs
are angular when young.
Leaves are alternate with relatively longer petiole. The flowers are very
fragrant and are produced in clusters of 2-7 on short stalks. Both the Calyx and Petals are whitish in
colour fruits are berries and have few whitish etliptic pointed seeds.
Flowering is from April to Yuly.
(c) UTILIZATION:
The root of this plant with the leaves of Allium
cepa packed in cleanmineral bottle with mineral such as seven up serving as
the solvent and allowed to stay for days for proper formation of infusion. This
infusion is taken three times daily by patents suffering from back ache,
arthritis and pulmonary bronchitis and even for rheumatic pains the fruit of
this plant with the leaves of Magrifera
indica, Carica papaya etc for malaria treatment.