Family: Meliaceae

Mock lemon is a small flowering tree with an upright, round crown.

Beautiful, bright yellow fragrant flowers are produced throughout much of the year. Mock lemon is a wonderfully fragrant specimen tree, hedge, potted plant, or an addition to your moonlit fragrance garden. The flowers are used to scent tea and linens, also for lei making and hair adornment. Germinate vegetatively as seeds are not typically produced.

Plant Uses:

• Container plant
• Fragrant
• Ornamental
• Specimen

Plant Dangers:

• No dangers

High Risk Traits:

• High climate match for tropical/subtropical regions.
  
• History of introduction outside its native range.
  
• Potentially Allelopathic; inhibits growth of other plants.
  
• Bird-dispersed fruits.
  
• Seeds survive gut passage, aiding spread.
  
• Shade-tolerant at some stages.

Low Risk Traits:

• No documented invasiveness or weediness.
  
• Not toxic to humans or animals.
  
• Non-climbing tree form, doesn't form thickets.
  
• Low seed production (large fruit with 1-2 seeds).
  
• No vegetative spread (e.g., fragmentation).