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Hi everyone! I'm trying to identify a few young citrus trees, but they are still very small (around 20 cm) and haven't produced any fruit yet.

I'm wondering: what characteristics can I use to tell a young lemon, mandarin, and orange tree apart at this stage?

I'm interested in any clues that might help with identification — not just the leaves, but also the stem, thorns, growth pattern, smell, shape, or any other characteristic that could help distinguish them.

Is it possible to reliably tell them apart while they're this young, or do I basically have to wait until they produce flowers or fruit?

I'm adding some pictures in case they help. Any advice from people who grow citrus would be greatly appreciated!

Hi everyone! I'm trying to identify a few young citrus trees, but they are still very small (around 20 cm) and haven't produced any fruit yet.

I'm wondering: what characteristics can I use to tell a young lemon, mandarin, and orange tree apart at this stage?

I'm interested in any clues that might help with identification — not just the leaves, but also the stem, thorns, growth pattern, smell, shape, or any other characteristic that could help distinguish them.

Is it possible to reliably tell them apart while they're this young, or do I basically have to wait until they produce flowers or fruit?

I'm adding some pictures in case they help. Any advice from people who grow citrus would be greatly appreciated!

Hi everyone! I'm trying to identify a few young citrus trees, but they are still very small (around 20 cm) and haven't produced any fruit yet.

I'm wondering: what characteristics can I use to tell a young lemon, mandarin, and orange tree apart at this stage?

I'm interested in any clues that might help with identification — not just the leaves, but also the stem, thorns, growth pattern, smell, shape, or any other characteristic that could help distinguish them.

Is it possible to reliably tell them apart while they're this young, or do I basically have to wait until they produce flowers or fruit?

I'm adding some pictures in case they help. Any advice from people who grow citrus would be greatly appreciated!

Hi everyone! I'm trying to identify a few young citrus trees, but they are still very small (around 20 cm) and haven't produced any fruit yet.

I'm wondering: what characteristics can I use to tell a young lemon, mandarin, and orange tree apart at this stage?

I'm interested in any clues that might help with identification — not just the leaves, but also the stem, thorns, growth pattern, smell, shape, or any other characteristic that could help distinguish them.

Is it possible to reliably tell them apart while they're this young, or do I basically have to wait until they produce flowers or fruit?

I'm adding some pictures in case they help. Any advice from people who grow citrus would be greatly appreciated!

Hi! I’m a Spanish native speaker learning English, and I’ve been wondering about something.

In Spanish, especially in Latin American dubbing, movies and TV shows sometimes use words or expressions that sound completely unnatural to us in everyday life. You can tell that it’s “movie dialogue” rather than something a real person would actually say.

Does the same thing happen in English?

Are there any expressions, phrases, or ways of speaking that you hear all the time in movies and TV shows, but that native speakers would almost never use in a normal conversation?

I’d especially love to hear examples that sound completely normal to learners but immediately sound “movie-like” to native speakers.