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Jul 08, 2019
3 minutes
WORDS: ANNETTE TAN
When life first gave the world lemons, no one thought to make lemonade. Rather, the people of Assam in India, where lemons are thought to have originated, gazed at them appreciatively, much like they did tomatoes, which were also cultivated for ornamental purposes.
The history of the lemon is a hazy one. There are few conclusions as to where the lemon originated, but it is thought that modern citrus trees are the descendants of natural species
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