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[–] grue@lemmy.world 86 points 1 week ago (8 children)

"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.

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

How can I unsubscribe from Lemon Facts?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't know when it's gonna be and I don't make any promises, but one day you'll be browsing Lemmy minding your own business, and -- BAM! -- lemon fact. There's nothing you can do about it.

(...Well, except maybe staying away from topics in which it would be relevant to post facts about lemons. That'd probably work.)

[–] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

one day you'll be browsing Lemmy minding your own business, and -- BAM! -- lemon fact.

When life gives you lemons, have a lemon party.

[–] Live_your_lives@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Can you give more your subscription? I'd like more Lemon Facts.

Life will give you lemons wheter you want it or not. There's no unsubscribing.

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

partially expressing an ancestral form

This is just sciency words for eldritch horror

[–] Frittiert 3 points 1 week ago

Could also be a way of calling someone a monkey.

"Looks like you're partially expressing an ancestral form!"

[–] watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 8 points 1 week ago

That's a goddamn shuttlecock

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] soliloquy@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago

I just looked up what these look like on the inside and am quite disappointed

[–] sgnl@midwest.social 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Pretty sure it's just fasciation. It's usually rare so it tends to make them fairly valuable.

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I have given you the label "lemon fact guy". Wear it with pride because I mean it well. Thanks for sharing your lemon knowledge

I think you're lying. I think you are a biologist or at least a citrus expert! Liar!

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 35 points 1 week ago

biblically accurate lemon

[–] teft@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

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!

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s a keming issue. An o got too close to the l and we ended up with a demon.

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Sorry I fuckin lost it at keming

[–] adj16@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

#dontputyourdickinthat

[–] Beryl@jlai.lu 7 points 1 week ago

Cthulhemon.

Lemon flavoured tree cancer

[–] federalreverse 7 points 1 week ago

Thanks, buttpilgrim.

[–] jwt@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When life gives you lemons...

Demand to see life's manager.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

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!

[–] ug01x@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Much like a rat king this should be known as a lemon king

[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Or Earl of Lemongrab

[–] ech@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago
[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

I think that's Hermaeus Mora

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Mutant lemon. If it tastes good, you should breed it and create a new product ;)

[–] dance_ninja@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is their backyard in Pripyat?

[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

You need a Velas detector to unearth this monstrosity.

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago
[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I think it ate the lemon stealing whores.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago
[–] mihor@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's The Thing but with plants.

On a sidenote,

Tap for spoilerthis is exactry the story from the original 1950's movie 'The Thing from Another World'.