The History and Evolution of Citrus (Documentary)

A journey back in time to understand the evolution and origins of the genus citrus.

A list of my sources:

Boyd, R., & Silk, J. B. (2020). How humans evolved. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

Toussaint-Samat, M. (2009). A history of food. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

Talon, M., Caruso, M., & Gmitter, F. G. (2020). The genus citrus. Duxford, United Kingdom: Woodhead Publishing, an imprint of Elsevier.

Wu, Guohong & Terol, Javier & Ibanez, Victoria & López-garcía USACH, Antonio & Pérez-Román, Estela & Borredá, Carles & Domingo, Concha & Tadeo, Francisco & Carbonell-Caballero, Jose & Alonso, Roberto & Curk, Franck & Du, Dongliang & Ollitrault, Patrick & Roose, Mikeal & Dopazo, Joaquin & Gmitter, Frederick & Rokhsar, Daniel & Talon, Manuel. (2018). Genomics of the origin and evolution of Citrus. Nature. 554. 10.1038/nature25447.

Xie, Sanping & Manchester, Steven & Liu, Kenan & Wang,, Yunfeng & Sun, Bainian. (2013). Citrus linczangensis sp. n., a Leaf Fossil of Rutaceae from the Late Miocene of Yunnan, China. International Journal of Plant Sciences. 174. 1201-1207. 1

[hussain]

You didn’t have to go this hard on a documentary about citrus but you did, and for that I appreciate you

[kksks]

So, it takes 3 years for youtube to recommend me this video? This is an amazing content, hats off to the creators! shame on you youtube...

[PuffyCataphract]

You deserve more mate, best wishes to you and hope to see you in the future!

[djblackprincecdn]

I never thought I would be enthralled by 52 minutes of citrus taxonomy but here I am. Well done sir.

[Esrom_music]

I can not believe how few people have seen this. Sooo much research and effort. My hats off to you dude.

[betonkemalist]

I’m a citrus grower in Turkey. We only have lemon, mandarin, and orange growing in our region. I didn’t know there were so many other citrus species. I’m very excited to grow different varieties of citrus. This was a very informative and amazing video!

[Navak_]

Thanks for going hard when you didn't need to. It's people like you who make the world a better place.

[onethousandmilliondollar]

This is the best youtube video about citrus taxonomy I've ever seen.

[timomonochrom]

Bro dropped a video 7 years ago, 3 years ago, refused to elaborate, left

[Nero_Karel]

Only really expected this to be a rough overview of cultivation history for the most part but was actually blown away by how much more we can even know about the prehistoric roots of this genus than I'd thought up until now - great work compiling and presenting all that research!

[vnxettitw]

I watched the whole thing!! Was very interesting. I became obsessed with citrus bc my gateway kumquat produced so much. I've now added meyer lemon, keffir lime, pomelo, calamondin & yuzu lol. All in pots and they produce pretty well! Thanks for sharing your hard work with us.👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[franciscusdondy]

My hobby in cocktails and bartending made me learn syrup making and it has also led me to citrus varieties and I finally found your amazing video. I never knew how far the citrus' journey has come. Thank you very much for the lesson!

[shannonrobinson]

I’m fascinated by citrus. I have a finger lime, Mayer lemon, variegated pink lemon, key lime, navel orange and grapefruit, yuzu and a commercial variety of mandarin orange. I hope to add calamondin and kumquat soon which I lost during a hard freeze several years ago. Citrus adds so much zing to foods. I also have apricot, pomegranate, fig, avacado, and persimmon trees. There used to be just something about growing fruit trees that is very appealing to me. Thank you so much for this video.

[folkingadams]

I am stunned at the quality of this video! Hugely underrated as with your other videos too. Thankyou

[ElizabethAnderson-tp]

Excellent coverage. Not that I will remember most of it but I had no idea how these “common” fruits had evolved or been purposefully crossed to create what we enjoy today. Thank you for your scholarly dive into this little known topic.

[Monalisaclaire]

This was so good. My teen son and I really enjoyed it! Your voice and knowledge level are wonderful

[jasonjayalap]

I searched for this video because two workers in a nursey were arguing about the kumquat I was buying. One said it was an orange, the other a mandarin. I can now say: Neither!

[chandraravikumar]

We have here in our tropical monsoon forests of India the original wild Citron. It is treasured for its medicinal use. The peel and pith are extremely bitter, and pulp and juice extremely sour. We make pickles, esp. salted and sundried whorls of fruit, that are chewed during and after severe fevers, illness, etc. These citron fruit can be anywhere between a small apple sized fruit to very large melon sized fruit sometimes weighing over a kilogram each.

[memegamermike]

4:38 Thought it would be an ad read but he just keeps talking about citrus, legendary

[bonkerbanker]

Videos like this is what makes youtube great. Thank you! 😀