CAT-00019
Round lime / dooja
Citrus australis
Catalog fields
- Genus
- Citrus
- Photo
- Not recorded
- Edible
- Yes
- layout
- single
- Habitat
- Found in Araucaria vine forest, especially at the forest edge.
- Published
- Yes
- Food group
- Fruit
- Latin name
- Citrus australis
- Fruit photo
- Not recorded
- Plant title
- Round lime / dooja
- Source URLs
- https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Citrus%20australis | https://tuckerbush.com.au/dooja-citrus-australis/ Open source ↗ Open source 2 ↗
- Catalogue ID
- CAT-00019
- Mature width
- 3-5m
- Native range
- Restricted to southeastern Queensland.
- Plant family
- Rutaceae
- Supplier SKU
- Not recorded
- Listing group
- Common bush-food crop
- Mature height
- 4-7m
- Native states
- QLD
- Original list
- No
- Research date
- 10/10/2026
- Research notes
- Profile enriched from botanical/nursery sources. Dimensions are unpruned regional estimates where available; missing measurements remain explicit. Seasons are regional guides and vary with climate, location, cultivar and plant maturity. Drought and cultivation guidance are qualitative garden inferences, not measured ratings.
- Evidence status
- Nursery food-use source; preparation detail review pending
- Fruiting season
- Summer, approximately December-March.
- Background photo
- Not recorded
- Edible component
- Fruit juice and zest
- Flowering season
- Spring.
- Brief description
- Thorny native citrus tree with rounded fruit.
- Drought tolerance
- Moderate to high once established; fruiting benefits from water.
- Preparation notes
- Use ripe citrus juice and rind in flavouring, preserves or drinks; remove seeds.
- Flower description
- White to pinkish citrus flowers.
- General cultivation
- General guidance (qualitative): Promising in full sun with drainage; protect young plants from frost.
- Botanical description
- Slender tree to 18 m high, spreading by suckering roots; spines 5–10 mm long, solitary; twigs quadrangular. Leaves: petiole 2–3 mm long, not winged, articulated with lamina; lamina obovate to obcordate, (20–) 30–40 (–60) mm long, (10–) 20–30 mm wide, cuneate at base, entire or distally undulate, emarginate to obtuse. Flowers solitary, bisexual, 4- or 5-merous. Calyx lobes c. 1.5 mm long. Petals linear-oblong, c. 6 mm long, white. Stamens 16–20, free. Ovary 6-locular. Fruits globular, 25–35 (–50) mm diam., rough-skinned, becoming yellow on tree. Seeds c. 3 or 4 per locule, flattened.
- Other botanical names
- Not recorded
- Attracts birds and bugs
- Native bees and insects visit flowers; foliage provides canopy shelter.
- Flora of Australia profile
- https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Citrus%20australis Open source ↗
- Fruit type and description
- Round green citrus fruit with sour juice and aromatic rind.
- Flora of Australia citation
- D.J. Mabberley. Citrus australis. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Canberra. https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Citrus%20australis (accessed 2026-10-14). Copyright Commonwealth of Australia; CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). HTML formatting removed; species-level context added where noted. Open source ↗ Open source 2 ↗
- Flora of Australia retrieved
- 14/10/2026