A luxury Persian import, famous for its medicinal qualities and lovely smell, the citron became Sukkot’s פְּרִי עֵץ הָדָר “fruit of a splendid tree” in the first century C.E.PaleoJudaica posts on the etrog/citron, including ones on the Ramat Rachel garden, are collected here.
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