Citrus

Citrus
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These are the "starter trees" for T9, a citrus tree that grows with no parent citrus trees nearby:

Sources

Citrus Trees produce one Citrus fruit about every 8 real life hours and are attached to Indonesian Bee Hives.
Up to a maximum of 5 fruit can be built up before it will need to be gathered so that more can be produced.

Use

Citrus Trees have 4 statistics that determine what type of fruit is produced:

Color
Sweetness
Size
Length

When a citrus tree first grows, two other (citrus) trees within range (15-20 coords) are chosen to be the "parents" to determine the variety of the new tree. If no parent trees are within range, a Greenish Amanatsu or Sweet Kabosu will grow.

Growing Info

Every Citrus Tree has an option to "mulch" it or chop it down. In an hour of real time, a new tree will grow and will search for any citrus trees in range to act as parents as above. Using this method, you can have 3 trees together, mulch one of them, and it will re-grow using the other 2 trees as parents. This seems to be an effect similar to crossbreeding. There is also a random element involved in what new type of tree grows. Mulching the same tree multiple times will normally produce a number of different new types, depending on the variety of tree surrounding it.

Knowing the numbers for the statistics of the tree type you want, you can mix trees together, mulching unneeded trees (duplicates or types you don't want) with stats furthest away from your target tree, driving the orchard stats closer and closer to your goal. Additional information on this can be found on the Citrus Tree Data page.

Citrus Fruit Types

In Tale 9, there are 26 species of citrus fruit:

Amanatsu
Buddha's Hand
Calamondin
Citron
Coralfruit
Corian
Etrog
Grapefruit
Iyokan
Kabosu
Kinnow
Kumquat
Lemon
Lenat
Lime
Mandarin
Orange
Oroblanco
Pummelo
Rangpur
Shangjuan
Sudachi
Summerbell
Tangelo
Tangerine
Yuzu

There are 8 different adjectives used to describe the particular type of fruit:

Flat
Large
Long
Small
Greenish
Reddish
Sweet
Tangy

This means there are 216 different types of citrus fruit in all. Examples: Flat Tangelo, Greenish Lime, Sweet Lenat. Starting in Tale 9, any of these kinds of citrus could be requested for the Test of Festivals

Uses

Citrus fruit is used to make Simple Perfume for the Test of Festivals and the Test of Ritual Mummification
Once Perfuming is available, ten citrus fruits of the same kind can be converted into one perfume, and they can be stored more compactly.

In addition, citrus fruits were also used in building Mining Camps, in Tale 8. More information is available on the Mining Camp page.

Research

Perfuming:

50 Sweet Lemons
50 Large Limes
50 Tangy Mandarins
50 Small Coralfruit
50 Sweet Tangelo
50 Large Tangerines
50 Long Corians
50 Sweet Pummelo