What is this fruit?

[patz]

Tree in the backyard, feels like a lemon skin. Not much smell and doesn't look ripe, yet.

[Nostril Cheese]

When I am drowning, I reach for a lime..

[look 171]

I think its a grapefruit of some type. My folks have a tree like it at their house. They and their neighbor seem to eat them sometimes. I can't stand it.

[stomachmonkey]

Skin looks to thick for a lime.

Looks more like a Pomelo.

[HardDrive]

Looks like an unripe lime to me. Do you have photo of the tree?

[dan88911]

An unripe lemon.

[URY914]

Banana

[LeeH]

Pomelo?

[flatbutt]

snow tires

[herr_oberst]

Cargo fruit?
2 empty 'alves of coconuts?

[tevake]

Pull a leaf from the tree , shred it and sniff the smell .
May give you an idea of the fruit variety .

[WPOZZZ]

I agree with pomelo aka jabong. Too bad it isn't the pink one as those are especially tasty.

[72doug2,2S]

Hey, let's keep it citrus in this thread.

No need for inflammatory language like bananas and snow tires.

[masraum]

There's a house in my neighborhood that grows fruit that looks like that except that the fruit is huge, at least as big as a cantaloupe nearly as big as a basketball.

[gshase]

It is a Meyers Lemon.......Citrus × meyeri, the Meyer lemon, is a citrus fruit native to China thought to be a cross between a true lemon and either a mandarin or common orange.

It was introduced to the United States in 1908 as S.P.I. #23028[1] by the agricultural explorer Frank Nicholas Meyer, an employee of the United States Department of Agriculture who collected a sample of the plant on a trip to China.[2]

The Meyer lemon is commonly grown in China in garden pots as an ornamental tree. It became popular as a food item in the United States after being rediscovered by chefs such as Alice Waters at Chez Panisse during the California Cuisine revolution at the end of the 1990s.[3][4] Popularity further climbed when Martha Stewart began featuring them in her recipes.[2]

[930addict]

Pomelo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomelo

[Craig T]

It is certainly not a Meyers lemon. I have 10 Meyers trees. It's not a lime either…I that 7 lime trees in two verities. Not even close.

99.9% sure its a pomelo.

Pomelos...

[john70t]

If life gives you pomelos, can you still make lemonaide?

[gacook]

Since I'd never heard of pomelos before this thread (PPOT is so educational/informative!), I'd have said lime. I'd still toss it in a beer and see how it tastes...

Oh, and my first thought when reading the OP, was "How has this dude never seen a lime before?!?!"

[patz]

Yup, looks like a Pomelo, Thanks.