Coodanup resident Val McSwan was left stunned but not soured when she plucked an almost kilogram-heavy lemon from her garden on Sunday.
Ms McSwan was staggered when she found the bowling ball-sized fruit hanging from her rather lopsided Lisbon lemon tree, with the keen grower saying she couldn’t believe her eyes.
“I came out to pick the lemons like I do most days and thought 'my god, that’s out of this world’,” she said.
“I was a bit blown away.”
The sizable citrus weighed in at 883 grams, easily twice the size of any other growing on the tree.
Ms McSwan has been picking the tree since she moved to Mandurah from Victoria with her husband Marcus 18 months ago, but can’t explain why it has suddenly sprouted a bundle of oversized lemons.
“Maybe it’s the rain or maybe it’s just the soil it grows in – I don’t really know,” she said.
“Whatever it is, I reckon I could supply the local fish and chip shops for months.”
