Editing Key lime (section)

== Distribution and habitat ==
''C. aurantiifolia'' is native to [[Southeast Asia]]. Its apparent path of introduction was through the [[Middle East]] to [[North Africa]], then to [[Sicily]] and [[Andalucia]] and then, 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 |volume=1 |pages=16–24 |work=Tequesta |publisher=Historical Association of Southern Florida as a Bulletin of the [[University of Miami]] |issue=2 |url=http://digitalcollections.fiu.edu/tequesta/files/1942/42_1_03.pdf |url-status=dead |access-date=28 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210925094544/http://digitalcollections.fiu.edu/tequesta/files/1942/42_1_03.pdf |archive-date=25 September 2021 |via=[[Florida International University]]}}</ref> From the Caribbean, lime cultivation spread to tropical and subtropical North America, including [[Mexico]], [[Florida]], and later [[California]].