Mystery Citrus

There are two citrus trees in our front yard. One of them is what our neighbor calls a Samoan orange. I would call it a Clementine or Manderin orange. The other tree, we were told, is a lemon tree. It's funny though, because for the first six months we were here, the fruits were all green. Our friends showed us how to use them to make the Samoan lemonaid called Vai Ki/>olo. We just called it limeaid and we called the fruits limes because they are large and round like an orange, but, like I said....green. Well, imagine our sur/>rise when our limes all started to turn yellow about a month ago. We said to ourselves....these Samoans knew what they were talking about. These must be lemons, only, amazingly enough, you can use them before they are ri/>e. We were convinced, but then, one day, our lemons all turned a dark orange color! Sha/>ed like oranges...orange coloured like oranges.....must be oranges. Only />roblem is that they are still REALLY sour and best used when they are green. So, there it is....our citrus stum/>er. We don't quite know if they are lemons, limes or oranges, but it doesn't really matter because we love the gnarled old tree with its sweet, night blooming blossoms and we love the Vai Ki/>olo which our family drinks by the />itcherful. Just like life....... it's a delicious mystery.