''C. aurantiifolia'' is původné v [[Jihovýchodní Asie| jihovýchodní Asii]]. Odtud by přinesen na [[Střední východ]] a do [[severní Afrika|severní Afriky]], poté na [[Sicilie|Sicilii]] a do [[Andalusie]] and via Spanish explorers to the [[West Indies]], including the [[Florida Keys]]. [[Henry Perrine]] is credited with introducing the Key lime to Florida.<ref name=tequesta>{{cite news |last= Robinson |first= T. Ralph |date= August 1942 |title= Henry Perrine: Pioneer horticulturist of Florida |work= Tequesta |volume= 1 |issue= 2 |pp=16–24 |publisher= Historical Association of Southern Florida as a Bulletin of the [[University of Miami]] |url= http://digitalcollections.fiu.edu/tequesta/files/1942/42_1_03.pdf |via= [[Florida International University]] |accessdate= 28 November 2018}}</ref> From the Caribbean, lime cultivation spread to tropical and subtropical North America, including [[Mexico]], [[Florida]], and later [[California]].
Since the [[North American Free Trade Agreement]] came into effect, many Key limes on the US market are grown in Mexico, [[Central America]] and [[South America]]. They are also grown in [[Texas]], [[Florida]], and [[California]].
TheKyselý Keylajm limedal hasvzniknout givenněkolika risedalším toodrůdám several other lime varietieslimet. Nejznámější The best known,je thezřejmě [[PolyploidPolyploidie|triploidtriploidní]] progenyofkříženec a Key lime-lemon cross, is thes [[PersianCitrus limelimon|citroníkem]] (''Citrusnazývaný ×tahitský latifolia'')lajm, thezřejmě mostnejrozšířenější widely-producedprůmyslově lime,pěstovaná globallylimeta. Ostatní Othersjsou are, like their parent, classed withinklasifikovány ''C. aurantiifolia''. [[Backcross]]ingZpětným křížením withs [[citronCitrus Medica|cedrátem]] hasvznikla producedspeciální askupina distincttriploidních grouplimet ofs triploidjistým, limesavšak that are also of commercial value to aomezeným limitedhospodářským degreevýznamem, the seedynapříklad Tanepeo, Coppenrath, Ambilobe anda Mohtasseb limelimen, varietiesstejně astak wellMadagaskarský as the Madagascar lemoncitron. Hybridization withNovokaledonská a [[mandarinKaghzi orange|mandarin]]-[[pomelo]]limeta crossse similarjeví tojako thevýsledek orangessamoopylení haskyselého produced the Kirk limelajmu. Spontánní Theduplikací Newgenomu Caledoniapravděpodobně andvznikla Kaghzitetrapolidní limes'''gigantický appearkyselýá to have resulted from an [[F1 hybrid|F2]] Key lime self-pollination, while a spontaneous genomic duplication gave us the [[Polyploid|tetraploid]] Giant Key limelajm'''.<ref name="limes and lemons">{{cite journal | title=Phylogenetic origin of limes and lemons revealed by cytoplasmic and nuclear markers | last1=Curk | first1=Franck | last2=Ollitrault | first2= Frédérique | last3=Garcia-Lor | first3= Andres | last4=Luro | first4=François | last5=Navarro | first5=Luis | last6=Ollitrault | first6=Patrick | journal=Annals of Botany | volume=11 | pages=565–583 | year=2016 | doi=10.1093/aob/mcw005 | pmc=4817432 }}</ref><ref>{{citation|last1=Ali | first1=Muhammad Amjad | last2=Nawaz | first2=Muhammad Azher | chapter=Advances in Lime Breeding and Genetics | title=The lime: botany, production and uses| editor-last1=Khan |editor-first1=M. Mumtaz | editor-last2=Al-Yahyai| editor-first2=Rashid | editor-last3=Al-Said |editor-first3=Fahad | year=2017 | publisher=CAB International | pages=37–53}}</ref> The potential to produce a wider variety of lime hybrids from the Key lime due to its tendency to form [[ploidy|diploid]] gametes may reduce the disease risk presented by the limited diversity of the current commercial limes.<ref>{{cite journal| last1=Rouiss | first1=H | last2=Bakry | first2=F | last3=Froelicher | first3=Y | last4=Navarro | first4=L | last5=Aleza | first5=P | last6=Ollitrault | first6=P| title=Origin of ''C. latifolia'' and ''C. aurantiifolia'' triploid limes: the preferential disomic inheritance of doubled-diploid ‘Mexican’ lime is consistent with an interploid hybridization hypothesis | journal=Annals of Botany | volume=121 | pages=571–585 | year=2018 | doi=10.1093/aob/mcx179}}</ref>
Kyselý lajm má díky tendenci tvoření diploidních [[gameta|gamet]] vysoký potenciál dát základ novým odrůdám, odolnějším proti různým chorobám než současné hospodářsky významné variety.<ref>{{cite journal| last1=Rouiss | first1=H | last2=Bakry | first2=F | last3=Froelicher | first3=Y | last4=Navarro | first4=L | last5=Aleza | first5=P | last6=Ollitrault | first6=P| title=Origin of ''C. latifolia'' and ''C. aurantiifolia'' triploid limes: the preferential disomic inheritance of doubled-diploid ‘Mexican’ lime is consistent with an interploid hybridization hypothesis | journal=Annals of Botany | volume=121 | pages=571–585 | year=2018 | doi=10.1093/aob/mcx179}}</ref>
