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

Neither lemons, nor limes are naturally occurring fruit trees, both of them are a hybrid that was created either intentionally or perhaps by accident by humans crossbreeding different citrus trees. Many of the fruits and vegetables we cultivate, and eat exist because of human intervention.