LEMON CULTIVATION
With over 800,000 tons, of which approximately 3.5 are exported, Italy is the world's number one producer of lemons. The region with the most crops is Sicily, which provides approximately 90% of the domestic crop.
The plant is quite vigorous, and the branches - generally long - have thorns, while the pale green leaves are lanceolate and with a short, non-winged stem.
Lemons flower at various times of the year and produce various types of fruit, including March lemons, winter lemons and white lemons from the late winter-spring flowering, and summer lemons in the summer, as well as bastards that originate from any autumn-winter flowering.
The fruit is generally elongated with a more or less pronounced knob at the tip. The number of seeds depends on the crop and the flowering period from which the fruit originates.

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