"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.
I don't know when it's gonna be and I don't make any promises, but one day you'll be browsing Lemmy minding your own business, and -- BAM! -- lemon fact. There's nothing you can do about it.
(...Well, except maybe staying away from topics in which it would be relevant to post facts about lemons. That'd probably work.)
When life gives you eldritch lemons, don’t make eldritch lemonade. Make life take the eldritch lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn eldritch lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give teft eldritch lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna sacrifice your family! With the eldritch lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible eldritch lemon that burns your house down!
Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
A vestige of the crucible of primordial life. Born partially of devolution, it was considered a signifier of the divine in ancient times, but is now increasingly disdained as an impurity as civilization has advanced.
40 Comments
grue@lemmy.world · 86 pts · 1y
"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.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 1y
How can I unsubscribe from Lemon Facts?
grue@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 1y
I don't know when it's gonna be and I don't make any promises, but one day you'll be browsing Lemmy minding your own business, and -- BAM! -- lemon fact. There's nothing you can do about it.
(...Well, except maybe staying away from topics in which it would be relevant to post facts about lemons. That'd probably work.)
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 1y
When life gives you lemons, have a lemon party.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
https://youtu.be/_Ijihli14Wk?si=bqmYrwzV_NsZqNLn
arandomthought@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y
Life will give you lemons wheter you want it or not. There's no unsubscribing.
Live_your_lives@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Can you give more your subscription? I'd like more Lemon Facts.
bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net · 13 pts · 1y
This is just sciency words for eldritch horror
Frittiert@feddit.org · 3 pts · 1y
Could also be a way of calling someone a monkey.
"Looks like you're partially expressing an ancestral form!"
watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 1y
What
WHAT
Taleya@aussie.zone · 8 pts · 1y
That's a goddamn shuttlecock
thesporkeffect@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
The all-skin lemon
soliloquy@startrek.website · 3 pts · 1y
I just looked up what these look like on the inside and am quite disappointed
sgnl@midwest.social · 6 pts · 1y
Pretty sure it's just fasciation. It's usually rare so it tends to make them fairly valuable.
PlexSheep@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 1y
I have given you the label "lemon fact guy". Wear it with pride because I mean it well. Thanks for sharing your lemon knowledge
arandomthought@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
I think you're lying. I think you are a biologist or at least a citrus expert! Liar!
noodlejetski@lemm.ee · 35 pts · 1y
biblically accurate lemon
teft@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 1y
When life gives you eldritch lemons, don’t make eldritch lemonade. Make life take the eldritch lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn eldritch lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give teft eldritch lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna sacrifice your family! With the eldritch lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible eldritch lemon that burns your house down!
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y
It’s a keming issue. An o got too close to the l and we ended up with a demon.
Banana@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y
Sorry I fuckin lost it at keming
adj16@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
I’m no lemonologist but it looks like it could maybe be a very severe case of Citrus Bud Mites: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/384904-Aceria-sheldoni
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/123925554
Does look kind of similar doesn't it.
BigBenis@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
#dontputyourdickinthat
ug01x@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Much like a rat king this should be known as a lemon king
Rusty@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
Or Earl of Lemongrab
ech@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
A Lemperor
Beryl@jlai.lu · 7 pts · 1y
Cthulhemon.
federalreverse@feddit.org · 7 pts · 1y
Thanks, buttpilgrim.
undergroundoverground@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Lemon flavoured tree cancer
jwt@programming.dev · 6 pts · 1y
Demand to see life's manager.
stringere@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
Don't stop there.
Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
troyunrau@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y
Mutant lemon. If it tastes good, you should breed it and create a new product ;)
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
I think that's Hermaeus Mora
Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 1y
Is their backyard in Pripyat?
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
You need a Velas detector to unearth this monstrosity.
dance_ninja@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Lemon of the Crucible
Equip to make lemonade.
A vestige of the crucible of primordial life. Born partially of devolution, it was considered a signifier of the divine in ancient times, but is now increasingly disdained as an impurity as civilization has advanced.
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
The Rot
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
I think it ate the lemon stealing whores.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Ah, the famous Arkham Lemon. Very nice.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
E.V.I.L.