Botanical name: Citrus japonica    Family: Rutaceae (Citrus family)
Synonyms: Citrus × aurantium var. japonica, Citrus madurensis, Citrus margarita

Round Kumquat is unique because its entire bite-size fruit, peel and all, is edible, with the peel being sweet and the flesh tart. It is a small shrub or small tree barely 2-3 m tall. Leaves with very narrowly winged leaf-stalk less than 1 cm long, obovate, elliptic to broadly ovate, blunt with rounded-toothed margin. Flowers are usually solitary or up to 3 in a fascicle, nearly stalkless, petals about 5 mm long, fruit usually less than 3 cm, spherical with thin rind, 4-6 chambered, orange yellow when ripe. Despite its species name japonica, Round Kumquat is native to China, cultivated elsewhere.

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