if fruit is sweet to encourage animals to eat it and carry the seeds away from the parent tree, how do lemons and limes fit into this mix?

Question

if fruit is sweet to encourage animals to eat it and carry the seeds away from the parent tree, how do lemons and limes fit into this mix?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Remember that pretty much everything that people grow for food are the product of 100s or 1000s of years of cultivating, maybe we don’t care or even want them to spread, we spread them where we want.