Italian Bergamot Tree
The leaves can be used sparingly in salads and fruit drinks while the dried leaves or fresh leaves can be made into a tea.
Italian bergamot tree. Orange bergamot use in marmalade tim stawell perth wa. But mainly how to grow a orange bergamot share your review advice or ask questions on our forum. Basic bergamot tree facts name citrus bergamia family rutaceae rue family. The flavor is floral and rich with a faintly bitter or astringent flavor.
The bergamot orange tree is the tree that produces the bergamot fruit which is a component of many perfumes and delicious infusions herbal teas and such. The oil is used in essential oil preparations skin care products and as a food flavoring most notably in earl gray tea. The greenish yellow fruit is slightly smaller than a grapefruit with a finer skin. The word bergamot is etymologically derived from the italian word bergamotto ultimately of turkish origin.
Pietro pizzimenti the proprietor of pizzimenti specialita tipiche calabresi followed suit and planted a tree in piazza reitano recently renamed after the icon of italian folk music calabrian mino reitano. They are primarily grown in southern italy in which the majority of the worlds supply of bergamot sour oranges now comes. Botanist disagree somewhat as to the origins of bergamot which is probably a cultivated hybrid deriving from the bitter orange tree but others claim it is a variety in its own right. Unlike other citrus fruits it is grown only for its essential oil.
Tree information on growing planting pruning maintenance ripening taste pick or bonsai tips. With the reopening of reggios renovated archeological museum the municipal government spruced up piazza de nava which faces it and ceremoniously planted a handful of bergamot trees. Citrus bergamia is a small tree that blossoms during the winter. Bergamot is a small green yellow fruit with a sour bitter pulp.
Bergamot citrus tree 3495 3995 best known as the flavoring in earl grey tea bergamot fruit resembles an orange in shape but is yellow like a lemon. Bergamot monarda didyma is a north american native plant with a scent of oranges. The italian regions of calabria and sicily are the largest producers followed by cote divoire. Customer comments on orange bergamot.
Bey armudu or bey armut princes pear or prince of pears. When in bloom the bergamot a small tree reaching four meters in height is covered with a multitude of fragrant white flowers. Sweeter than a lemon it is prized for its fragrant and delicious juice which also makes highly regarded marmalade.