Meiwa Kumquat Reference Whole seasons of botanical fieldwork

Whole seasons of botanical fieldwork across the Southeast have turned up fewer plants than a single good nursery bed

fine-textured foliage

spreading Ashe magnolia

for the polished trunks that set this species apart from every rough-barked relative

sweetly fragrant and heavy with nectar

Meiwa Kumquat Reference Whole seasons of botanical fieldworkThe Meiwa kumquat is the sweet one, the kumquat you can pop whole into your mouth and eat skin and all. A small, tidy, evergreen citrus, Fortunella crassifolia carries round, bright orange fruit a little over an inch across, and where most kumquats offer a sweet rind wrapped around sharply sour pulp, the Meiwa softens the contrast: the peel is thick and honey sweet, the flesh only mildly tart, so the whole fruit eats like candy off the branch.