Meyer lemons

This scaggy, almost leafless tree, barely a foot tall, is loaded with 6 nicely ripening Meyer lemons.
I'm surprised it's not buckling under their weight!

Last year, I ordered a lemon plant through mail-order, and before it arrived I saw some at Home Depot, and couldn't resist.  So there are actually two plants combined in this pot.  One has 2 fruit, and the other has 4.

The flowers of the lemon trees were amazingly pure white and very fragrant.  And the fruit is such a bonus.  I'm reluctant to pick and try them, because they have been such a long time coming.

turning from green to yellow - almost ripe

A few weeks later, I've been enjoying the lemons, and there are just three left.

here is some info from Wickapedia:

Citrus × meyeri, the Meyer lemon, is a citrus fruit native to China thought to be a cross between a true lemon and either a mandarin or common orange. It was introduced to the United States in 1908 by the agricultural explorer Frank Nicholas Meyer, an employee of the US Department of Agriculture who collected a sample of the plant on a trip to China.

The Meyer lemon is commonly grown in China in garden pots as an ornamental tree. 

Citrus × meyeri trees are 2 to 3 m tall at maturity, though they can be pruned smaller. Their leaves are dark green and shiny. The flowers are white with a purple base and fragrant.

The Meyer lemon fruit is yellow and rounder than a true lemon. The skin is fragrant, thin, and deep yellow with a slight orange tint when ripe. Meyer lemon fruits are sweeter, and less acidic than the more common Lisbon or Eureka supermarket lemon varieties. The pulp is a dark yellow and contains up to 10 seeds per fruit.

Meyer lemons are popular as ornamental plants due to their compact size, hardiness and productivity. They are highly decorative and suitable for container growing.Citrus × meyeri is reasonably hardy and grows well in warm climates. They are also fairly vigorous; a tree grown from seed usually begins fruiting in four years yielding thousands of lemons. While trees produce fruit throughout the year, the majority of the crop is harvest-ready in winter. Trees require adequate water, but less in the winter. For maximum yield, they should be fertilized during growing periods.