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When life gives you lemons... (lemmy.world)
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[–] grue@lemmy.world 86 points 3 months ago (15 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.

[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

partially expressing an ancestral form

This is just sciency words for eldritch horror

[–] Frittiert@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago

Could also be a way of calling someone a monkey.

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

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