Lemon oils are amongst the highest volume and most frequently traded of flavor fragrance essential oils. Citronellal citral considered key components responsible for lemon note with (neral + geranial) preferred. Of myriad sources citral, Australian myrtaceous tree, Myrtle, Backhousia citriodora F. Muell. (Myrtaceae), is superior. This review examines history, natural occurrence, cultivation, ta...
