London, May 15 (ANI): ‘Rolling Stones’ guitarist Keith Richards has revealed his passion for citrus fruits.

The veteran rocker has grown a tree after planting pips from a lemon he bought in a supermarket.

Now, he disclosed on a US TV chat show that it has produced citrus fruit “bigger than grapefruits”, reports the Sun.

The star - who gave up his favourite tipple vodka when he quit booze at the start of the year - even germinated the tree’s flowers by hand.

“Somebody told me that in the winter, when the flowers come up, you’ve got to germinate them,” he told chat show host Jimmy Fallon.

“So I end up with a little paintbrush, going round every flower. I wanted John Belushi’s bee outfit.

“I had nothing else to do - so what do you do when you’ve got nothing to do?” he explained. (ANI