Buddha's hand

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Fingered citron
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Buddha's hand fruit, "open hand" appearance when ripe
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C. m. var. sarcodactylis
Trinomial name
Citrus medica var. sarcodactylis
(Hoola van Nooten) Swingle
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  2. "Citrus medica var. Buddhas Hand". Catalog of the Living Plant Collections. Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Plant Growth Facilities. Retrieved 2010-04-20.
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  6. Goldschmidt, Eliezer E.; Bar-Joseph, Moshe (7 June 2023). The Citron Compendium: The Citron (Etrog) Citrus medica L.: Science and Tradition. Springer Nature. ISBN   978-3-031-25775-9.
Buddha's hand
Chinese name
Chinese 佛手柑
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin fóshǒugān