Have a look at this web page, reproduced from the classic text 'The Citrus Industry', which has an amazingly comprehensive account of all cultivated citrus varieties. Search within the page on 'jambhiri'.

I rather doubt that seed of C. jambhiri is available commercially. There are very strict quarantine barriers to international trade of citrus plants and seeds, because of viruses etc, some of which can even be transmitted with the seeds. But I get the impression there are few restrictions against bringing them into southern Asian countries, maybe because this region is the original home of both the plants and the diseases.

the bush lemon as i know it is not overly noted for its juice at times they can be very low in juice and woody, and often always a much stronger tasting flesh than other lemons.

just wondering if maybe you should try and source some of the other lemon varities with thinner skins and more juice? they will be grafted, or maybe get some slips from a known good qulaity lemon and graft to your root stock?

also not so sure that citrus grown from seed produce to type??

someone has given me a seedling lemon so in time i will see if the fruit is as good as the tree the seeds came from.

len

what are you like at grafting?

those such talented people say it isn't hard!!

maybe get your seedling growing, and get some slips from the local variety(s) and graft them on and see what you get no need to remove all or any of the bush lemon i don't think, you could have a multi fruiting tree?

not sure of cambodias climate, but would guess very tropical and wet in the wet season?

if so then plant your citrus in raised format, to provide the drainage for them, and if you can where they can get full sun would guess as they do well on western slopes here that may be another option?

len

Maybe you don't appreciate the limitations to citrus growing in the tropics. Most of them don't adapt at all well, with oranges, for example, poor, greenish imitations of the one we know.

In Thailand, where I have visited numerous fruit markets and which climatically is much the same as Cambodia, the only good locally grown citrus are limes, some mandarins, and pommelos. Thai pommelos, by the way are unbelievably delicious and for my money beat most other tropical fruits available there (but prepararing them for eating is quite laborious).

all i said was if the bush lemon does well then try some grafts of other citrus from the area. and if they do have limes that do well why not make that the root stock?

and at the end of the day it matters not what we want to grow if want success then we need to replicate the growing conditions suited to that plant.

len