{"title":"Citrus Record, Current","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe living half of the citrus record: every citrus Woodlanders grows now, has coming out of propagation, or would grow again. The Cold-Hardy Citrus Field Guide reads this collection alongside the archive half, because Liquid caps a collection loop at 50 and the full record holds 57. Keeping each half under 50 is what lets the guide show all of them on one page.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"citrus-taiwanica","title":"Citrus taiwanica","description":"\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders has long led in offering citrus and citrus hybrids hardy well beyond the usual citrus belt, and Citrus taiwanica is one of the tougher evergreens of the group. A vigorous, upright, spreading, thorny tree, the Taiwan orange bears sour tangerine-to-orange fruit that is both ornamental and useful, the base of a very tasty ade. One of the hardier evergreen citrus, the tree sets good crops here in Aiken, South Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative to Taiwan, this selection came to Woodlanders years ago from Major Collins of Tifton, Georgia, a pioneer in growing cold-hardy citrus, a nice thread of Southern citrus history. Grow the Taiwan orange in full sun and sharp, well-drained soil, in the ground through zones 8 to 11 or in a large container farther north, and site the tree back from paths and seating, since the thorns are formidable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhoto courtesy of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.danlepard.com\/citrus-taiwanica-bitter-oranges\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDan Lepard\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057835151475,"sku":"CITR-TAIW-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/citrustaiwanica-1.jpg?v=1722697967"},{"product_id":"citrus-x-citrus-citrus-sinensis-x-ponciris-trifoliata-morton","title":"Citrus ‘Morton’ (Citrus sinensis x Poncirus trifoliata)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders has long led in offering citrus and citrus hybrids hardy well beyond the usual citrus belt, and the Morton citrange is a handsome one. Like other sweet orange and trifoliate orange crosses, Morton makes an attractive ornamental evergreen, with fragrant white spring flowers and orange fruit, but the fruit here sets the cultivar apart: large, smooth-skinned, and remarkably like a true orange, with very few seeds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMorton is said to approach edibility more closely than most citranges. Straight from the branch the flavor is still too sharp for most, but the juice, diluted and sweetened, makes a very refreshing orange ade. Cold-hardy from the trifoliate side of the family, the tree suits the collector of hardy citrus and the gardener who wants a good-looking evergreen that fruits where tender citrus cannot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, grow Morton in full sun and sharp, well-drained soil, in the ground through zones 7 to 10 or in a large container farther north. Site where the fragrant spring bloom and the bright orange fruit can both be enjoyed, give room for a broad grower, and pair with other hardy citrus in an edible or ornamental planting.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057835249779,"sku":"CITR-MORT-CITR-SINE-01G","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Citrus_Morton_Citrus_sinensis_x_Poncirus_trifoliata_Woodlanders.jpg?v=1731555639"},{"product_id":"citrus-citrus-paradisi-x-ponciris-trifoliata-swingle","title":"Citrus 'Swingle'","description":"\u003cp\u003eNamed for Walter Tennyson Swingle, the pioneering citrus breeder who spent his career crossing tender oranges with the iron-hardy trifoliate orange, the Swingle citrumelo is among the toughest citrus hybrids ever raised. A cross of grapefruit, \u003cem\u003eCitrus paradisi\u003c\/em\u003e, and trifoliate orange, \u003cem\u003ePoncirus trifoliata\u003c\/em\u003e, this vigorous, thorny, semi-evergreen shrub or small tree carries fragrant white citrus blossoms in spring, followed by pear-shaped yellow fruits about the size of a large orange.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fruit is sour and seedy, more useful than sweet, but the bright acidity finds a place in marmalades, cocktails, marinades, and the kitchen generally. What sets the citrumelo apart is sheer constitution: hardy to about 10 degrees Fahrenheit once established, disease resistant, and adaptable to a wide range of soils, qualities that have made Swingle citrumelo one of the most trusted rootstocks in commercial citrus across the southeastern United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, grow the citrumelo as a hardy ornamental citrus or a productive novelty in full sun and well-drained soil, in the ground through zones 8b to 10 or in a large container to overwinter in colder regions. Drought and poor soils are taken in stride once the plant is settled. Give room for a broad, thorny grower, and site where the fragrant spring bloom and bold yellow fruit can be enjoyed at a safe reach from the thorns.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057835348083,"sku":"CITR-SWIN-CITR-PARA-01G","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Citrus_Swingle_CitrusparadisixPonciristrifoliata_Woodlanders2.jpg?v=1731556364"},{"product_id":"citrus-ichangensis","title":"Citrus cavaleriei (ichangensis)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Ichang papeda is a thorny evergreen small tree of twelve to fifteen feet, and the most cold-tolerant true citrus known to science, reported hardy to roughly five degrees Fahrenheit. The leaves are the tell: unusually large winged petioles, sometimes nearly as big as the blade itself, so each leaf looks like two leaves joined end to end. White flowers open in spring with the sweet heavy scent the whole genus is loved for. Fruit follows, rough-skinned and yellow, orange-sized, packed with large seeds and very little flesh. Sharply aromatic rather than sweet, and nobody would call this dessert fruit, though the zest is fragrant and useful and the juice finds work in marmalade, salt preserving, and drying.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name has recently changed, and both versions are worth knowing. Gardeners and citrus breeders have called this plant \u003cem\u003eCitrus ichangensis\u003c\/em\u003e since Walter Tennyson Swingle published the name in 1913, but \u003cem\u003eCitrus cavaleriei\u003c\/em\u003e, published by Léveillé two years earlier, has priority, and Kew's Plants of the World Online now treats \u003cem\u003ecavaleriei\u003c\/em\u003e as the accepted name with \u003cem\u003eichangensis\u003c\/em\u003e as a synonym. Ichang, the older romanization of Yichang in Hubei, marks the place; papeda is the name given to the group of hard, seedy, primitive citrus that sit outside the sweet oranges and lemons in the family tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwingle himself brought the plant to the United States. In 1926 he carried home a healthy young seedling raised for him at Nanking by C. C. Hu, grown from stock out of Hubei Province, and the interest was never ornamental. As the hardiest evergreen species in the genus, this papeda has been the raw material for cold-hardy citrus breeding ever since. The yuzu, now a fixture of Japanese cooking and increasingly of Western kitchens, is a cross of this species with a mandarin. The Ichang lemon is another of the offspring. Almost every serious attempt to push edible citrus north of its comfortable range runs through this tree somewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrow in full sun with sharp drainage and shelter from cold drying wind. The species will take temperatures that kill any other evergreen citrus outright, but wet cold is a different matter than dry cold, and a soggy winter root run will do far more damage than the thermometer. In zone 7 give a warm south wall and expect some leaf burn in a hard year; from zone 8 south, plant with confidence. Container culture works well and lets northern growers keep one under glass. Use as a specimen where the fragrance can be reached from a path, and be honest with yourself about the thorns, which are long, stiff, and unforgiving. This is a plant for collectors, citrus breeders, and anyone who enjoys owning the answer to a question nobody expects.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057835610227,"sku":"CITR-ICHA-01G","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/IchangPapedaCRC2327.jpg?v=1787163670"},{"product_id":"citrus-reticulata-keraji","title":"Citrus reticulata 'Keraji'","description":"\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders has long led in offering citrus and citrus hybrids hardy well beyond the usual citrus belt, and the Keraji mandarin is a favorite of the group. A medium-sized evergreen tree with the usual fragrant white citrus flowers, Keraji follows them with what Tom McClendon, in \u003cem\u003eHardy Citrus for the Southeast\u003c\/em\u003e, calls \"small, yellow, flattened tangerines that have a sweet lemonade taste unlike any other citrus fruits.\" That flavor is the whole reason to grow the tree, and Keraji has proven quite hardy in Augusta, Georgia since 1997.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, grow Keraji in full sun and sharp, well-drained soil, in the ground through zones 8 to 10 or in a large container to overwinter farther north. Nearly thornless and reliably productive, the tree suits an edible landscape, a sunny border, or a patio pot, and perfumes the air in spring. Site where the fragrant bloom and the sweet-lemonade fruit can both be enjoyed, and keep a plant near the kitchen for mandarins off the branch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhotos by George Mitchell, David Karp and Toni Siebert, CVC.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057835675763,"sku":"CITR-RETI-KERA-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Citrusreticulata_Keraji_Woodlanders.jpg?v=1731010759"},{"product_id":"citrus-reticulata-var-austera-rangpur","title":"Citrus 'Rangpur'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Rangpur is not truly a lime at all, but Indian gardeners have used the fruit as one for more than five hundred years. \u003cem\u003eCitrus\u003c\/em\u003e x \u003cem\u003elimonia\u003c\/em\u003e, an old natural hybrid of mandarin and citron, bears small, round, deep orange fruits that look like tangerines and taste fiercely sour, with the aromatic bite that makes a fine lime substitute for cooking, cocktails, and marmalade. In India the fruit goes by surkh nimboo, the red lime, prized for exactly that intense, tart juice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvergreen, fragrant in flower, and unusually cold hardy for a citrus of lime character, the Rangpur is widely grown as a dooryard fruit in California yet remains little known in the southern United States, where the plant deserves a wider audience. Woodlanders offers this old hybrid for gardeners curious about hardy, useful citrus beyond the familiar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, grow the Rangpur in full sun and sharp, well-drained soil, in the ground in the warmer parts of zone 8 with a sheltered spot, or in a large container that can move under cover for hard freezes. The white spring blossom is sweetly fragrant, the orange fruit both ornamental and useful, so site where flower and fruit can both be enjoyed. A productive, good-looking plant, and a conversation piece for the cook who wants limes off the branch.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057835741299,"sku":"CITR-RETI-AUST-RANG-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1958.jpg?v=1720137293"},{"product_id":"citrus-reticulata-changsha","title":"Citrus reticulata 'Changsha'","description":"\u003cp\u003eA very old Chinese cultivar, almost certainly named for the capital of Hunan province where the fruit has been grown for centuries, and quite possibly carrying \u003cem\u003eC. ichangensis\u003c\/em\u003e somewhere in the parentage. That suspected ancestry would account for the cold tolerance that has made Changsha the parent stock for nearly every modern hardy citrus breeding program of consequence: Wayne Hanna's seedless work at UGA Tifton, the Arctic Frost satsuma cross out of Texas, and others still in trial.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWidely considered the hardiest sweet-fruited mandarin in cultivation. Mature, acclimated trees shrug off 10 degrees Fahrenheit without permanent injury, and reports from the Dallas area document survival into the single digits. Here in Aiken the tree has come through every winter so far, bearing reliably and early, often within a year or two of planting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHabit and bloom\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tree is upright and twiggy, eventually 10 to 15 feet, with narrow willow-like leaves and intensely fragrant spring flowers that the honeybees find before you do. Spines are present on the trunk and main scaffolds, but the fruiting wood is essentially thornless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe fruit\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRipens late fall into early winter. Deep orange, around four inches across, flat-bottomed with shallow pumpkin-like grooves. The rind sits loose on the flesh and slightly bumpy, peeling away in one piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe flesh is sweet and low-acid, with none of the kerosene or bitter notes that betray most cold-hardy citrus as compromise plants. This is genuinely a fruit you eat out of hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fruit is also genuinely seedy. Count on that.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne word of caution\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe harvest window is short. Pick promptly as the fruit colors up. Left to hang, Changsha goes puffy and watery and loses what makes the fruit worth growing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057835872371,"sku":"CITR-RETI-CHAN-01G","price":46.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Citrus_reticulata_Changsha_Woodlanders.jpg?v=1731555810"},{"product_id":"citrus-myrtifolia-chinotto","title":"Citrus myrtifolia 'Chinotto'","description":"\u003cp\u003eCitrus myrtifolia 'Chinotto' is the myrtle-leaf orange, a small, dense, thornless citrus grown as much for beauty as for fruit. The tidy branches carry little pointed leaves like a myrtle's, sweetly fragrant white flowers, and a long-held crop of small, round, bitter oranges. Compact and slow, the chinotto makes an exceptional container or patio plant, an evergreen jewel that flowers and fruits at an easy, manageable size.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe name hints at China, where the tree is thought to have begun, but chinotto found its lasting fame in Italy, above all around Savona on the Ligurian coast. There the bitter little fruits are candied whole, cooked into marmalade, and pressed into the famous chinotto soft drink and a range of bitter aperitivi. Too sour to eat fresh, chinotto is a fruit for the kitchen and the glass, prized for aroma and bitterness rather than sweetness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders has long led in offering citrus and citrus kin that push north of the usual orange belt, and chinotto is among the more cold-tolerant of the sour oranges, reported to grow well outdoors in Augusta, Georgia. Even so, the tree is tender, and gardeners in colder spots do best to grow the chinotto in a large pot that can move under cover when frost threatens. Give warmth, full sun, and good drainage, and the reward is fragrance, glossy evergreen foliage, and ornamental fruit that lingers for months.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet Citrus myrtifolia 'Chinotto' in full sun in a warm, sheltered garden or a roomy container of free-draining mix, where the perfume of the flowers and the bright, long-lasting fruit can be enjoyed close at hand. Neat, evergreen, and richly scented in bloom, the chinotto works as a patio specimen, a fragrant accent by a door, or a small evergreen for a mild-climate border. For the cook and the collector alike, few citrus are so useful in so little space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhoto courtesy of UC RIverside\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057835970675,"sku":"CITR-MYRT-CHIN-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Citrusmyrtifolia_Chinotto_USDA.avif?v=1784303053"},{"product_id":"citrus-reticulata-nuclem","title":"Citrus reticulata 'NuClem'","description":"\u003cp\u003eNuClem is a special clementine among the cold-hardy citrus, a nucellar selection of the familiar clementine mandarin. Our friend and citrus guru Tom McClendon, who shared this one with us, explains it best: \"NuClem is a nucellar Clementine, meaning that it comes true from seed. Most Clementines are polyembryonic, meaning that seeds will almost always produce hybrids with other citrus nearby. NuClem also is distinctive in its cold-hardiness, having proven reliably hardy in Montezuma, GA, making it probably on par with Satsuma. Fruit is globular, about two inches in diameter, with a mildly adherent peel more like an orange than a mandarin. Fruit quality is excellent.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike other citrus, NuClem is an evergreen tree with fragrant white spring flowers, best given a sandy, well-drained soil and watered as needed. In gardens where the tree is borderline hardy, plant in a spot sheltered from north and northwest winds, and give extra protection during hard freezes. Grow in the ground through zones 8 to 10, or in a large container to overwinter farther north.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057836068979,"sku":"CITR-RETI-NUCL-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2152.jpg?v=1720137313"},{"product_id":"citrus-aurantium","title":"Citrus aurantium","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe sour orange is grown across the warm world as an ornamental and even a street tree, and stands somewhat naturalized in Florida. The fruit is famous for marmalade and useful little else, since the flesh is fiercely sour and bitter, not for eating out of hand. This particular unnamed selection has a Woodlanders story: we propagated the tree from a single specimen found growing on the edge of an abandoned sandy field in a remote corner of Appling County, Georgia, with no house anywhere near. What drew us was the crop, abundant, large, and very showy, loose-skinned and easy to peel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEasy to peel, yes, and utterly inedible. The fruits tasted, in a word, nasty. So here is a handsome orange to plant purely for looks, and as a well-deserved treat for anyone inclined to help themselves to fruit that is not theirs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond the garden, the sour orange, \u003cem\u003eCitrus aurantium\u003c\/em\u003e, carries one of the deepest medicinal and culinary histories of any citrus. The fragrant flowers yield neroli and orange-blossom water for perfume and flavor; the bitter peel flavors liqueurs and marmalade; and in traditional Chinese medicine the dried immature fruit and peel, zhi shi and zhi qiao, have been used for centuries as digestive remedies. In the garden here, though, the tree earns a place for the showy fruit and the sweetly fragrant spring bloom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057836200051,"sku":"CITR-AURA-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2082.jpg?v=1720137323"},{"product_id":"citrus-aurantium-gou-tou","title":"Citrus aurantium 'Gou Tou'","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmong the more intriguing fruits in the Woodlanders citrus collection, the Gou Tou sour orange stands apart, not only for rarity but for a rare combination of hardiness, heavy fruiting, and surprisingly pleasant flavor. Widely cultivated in Southeast Asia, \u003cem\u003eCitrus aurantium\u003c\/em\u003e 'Gou Tou' carries the form of a traditional bitter orange but with a taste that leans toward grapefruit, which makes this one of the most palatable sour oranges a gardener outside the subtropics can grow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fruit looks like a large, slightly rough-skinned orange, with pale orange, juicy flesh that is sour, complex, and citrus-sweet, pleasant enough to eat out of hand for anyone who enjoys a bold citrus bite, and superb for marmalade, sauces, marinades, and general kitchen adventure. Where most sour oranges are relegated to the preserving pot, Gou Tou is both flavorful and refreshing, an unusual thing in a bitter orange.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders propagates this selection from a robust specimen growing at Aquinas High School in Augusta, Georgia, where the tree has proven cold hardy and heavy bearing under the good care and keen eye of plantsman Joe Levert, a longtime friend of the nursery. That success in the Southeast makes Gou Tou a distinctive choice for gardens after cold-tolerant citrus with old-world character. Grow in full sun and sharp, well-drained soil, in the ground through zones 8b to 10 or in a large container farther north.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057836265587,"sku":"CITR-AURA-GOU-TOU-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2074.jpg?v=1720137330"},{"product_id":"citrus-hybrid-yuzuquat","title":"Citrus hybrid 'Yuzuquat'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Yuzuquat is a tri-generic hybrid, a curiosity even among unusual citrus. One parent is the yuzu, itself a cross of \u003cem\u003eCitrus ichangensis\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCitrus reticulata\u003c\/em\u003e; the other is the 'Nagami' kumquat, \u003cem\u003eFortunella margarita\u003c\/em\u003e. From that three-way pedigree comes an attractive evergreen citrus that bears sour, juicy, lemon-like fruits about the size of a chicken egg.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fruits make a fine substitute for the common commercial lemon, bright and aromatic in the kitchen, and the tree is considerably more cold hardy than a true lemon, an important difference for Southern gardeners. The Yuzuquat thrives and bears heavily in Augusta, Georgia, proof of a constitution well beyond the usual lemon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, grow the Yuzuquat in full sun and sharp, well-drained soil, in the ground through zones 8 and 9 or in a large container to overwinter farther north. Site where the fragrant white spring blossom and the yellow fruit can both be enjoyed, and keep a plant near the kitchen for a hardy lemon off the branch. A productive, good-looking citrus for the cook and the collector alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057836429427,"sku":"CITR-HYBR-YUZU-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2093.jpg?v=1720137340"},{"product_id":"citrus-citrus-x-citrus-reticulata-x-citrus-mitis-calamandarin","title":"'Calamandarin' Citrus (Citrus reticulata X Citrus mitis)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA cold-hardy citrus with a Woodlanders pedigree. Woodlanders has long led in offering citrus and citrus hybrids that stand outdoors beyond the usual citrus belt, and the calamandarin is one of the toughest. Likely a hybrid of a mandarin, Citrus reticulata, and a calamondin, the calamandarin blends easy-peeling, tangerine-like fruit with the cold tolerance that calamondin brings to the cross.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plant is a handsome, rounded small tree carrying glossy evergreen leaves, fragrant white spring blossoms, and heavy crops of small, tangerine-like fruit. The fruit ripens early and hangs long on the branches, staying good on the tree for weeks, so the harvest stretches through the season.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis selection came out of the Florida Citrus Arboretum, chosen by Woodlanders as one of the hardier survivors of the severe freeze of 1990, and has proven both hardy and very fruitful in the trial ground at Aiken, South Carolina. A genuine piece of citrus-breeding history for the adventurous southern gardener.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrow the calamandarin in full sun and well-drained soil, as a patio or courtyard specimen in zones 8 to 10, or in a movable container to overwinter indoors farther north. By federal citrus quarantine, we cannot ship citrus to Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, or Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057836494963,"sku":"CITR-CITR-CITR-RETI-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1143.jpg?v=1720137344"},{"product_id":"citrus-citrus-x-citrus-aurantifolia-x-fortunella-japonica-eustis","title":"Eustis Limequat","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe limequat was born of catastrophe. After the twin freezes of 1894 and 1895 laid waste to Florida's groves, Walter T. Swingle of the United States Department of Agriculture set out to breed citrus that could shrug off a cold snap, and in 1909 he crossed the sharp little West Indian or Key lime (Citrus aurantifolia) with the round Marumi kumquat (Fortunella japonica). Named and introduced in 1913 alongside a sister seedling called Lakeland, the Eustis limequat stands among the first successful intergeneric citrus hybrids, living proof that two separate genera could be wedded and still bear generous fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name is a plain-spoken marriage of words, lime joined to kumquat, and the epithet remembers the town of Eustis in central Florida, near the country where Swingle did his work. The kumquat parent contributes far more than a little hardiness. From Fortunella comes the thin, sweet, wholly edible rind that sets a limequat apart from any ordinary lime, so that the whole fruit, skin and all, can be dropped in the mouth or the pot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fruit themselves are small and oval, no larger than a big olive, ripening from deep green to a clear yellow across late fall and winter, a season when little else in the garden offers such brightness. Bite through the fragrant peel and the pulp within is fiercely tart and juicy, all Key lime, tempered by the honeyed skin. Cooks prize the Eustis for marmalade and preserves, for a squeeze over fish, and above all for the bar, where a limequat stands in for lime with a sweeter, more aromatic edge. The waxy white blossoms that precede the crop carry the heady orange-blossom perfume common to citrus, sweetening a porch or a greenhouse in spring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden the Eustis makes a tidy, naturally compact evergreen, reaching perhaps six to eight feet in a pot and taller in open ground where winters allow. Glossy leaves and a rounded, well-furnished habit keep the tree handsome even out of fruit, and a well-grown plant earns a place beside a sunny door, on a terrace, or in a conservatory. Hardier than a true lime yet no lover of hard frost, the Eustis wants full sun, a free-draining soil or a good container mix, and steady water; where winters bite, grow the plant in a pot that can be carried under cover until the cold has passed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057836560499,"sku":"CITR-CITR-CITR-AURA-01G","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/CitrusEustisWoodlanders1.jpg?v=1752516732"},{"product_id":"citrus-citrus-x-citrus-ichangensis-x-citrus-grandis-maxima","title":"Ichang \"Lemon\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders has long led the way in offering cold-hardy citrus, the kinds that carry fruit well beyond the usual citrus belt, and Ichang Lemon is a favorite of the group. The plant grows as a medium, evergreen small tree with large leaves on winged petioles and thorny branches, opens the fragrant white flowers typical of citrus in spring, and follows with very large, lemon-yellow, fragrant fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite the name, Ichang Lemon is not a true lemon but a hardy hybrid, Citrus × wilsonii, a cross of the Ichang papeda, Citrus ichangensis, with the pomelo, Citrus maxima. The Ichang papeda parent, native to the cold hills around Yichang in central China, is one of the most frost-tolerant citrus known, and passes that toughness on. Seed reached Western growers through the plant explorer Frank Meyer in 1919, and in China the fragrant fruit was once carried in the hand like a living perfume, earning the name shangjuan, the fragrant ball.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the kitchen the large, juicy, seedy fruit stands in for lemons: the bright, tangy juice, with subtle earthy notes, makes fine lemonade and marmalade, and a pie built from these fruit is, in our experience, perhaps better than the real thing. The heavy crop ripens through late fall and winter, exactly when a fresh, tart citrus is most welcome, and the flowers and fruit both carry a clean, far-reaching fragrance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe real appeal is hardiness. Ichang Lemon shrugs off cold to around ten to fifteen degrees Fahrenheit, and has fruited outdoors far north of the citrus belt, as far as New Jersey. Give the tree full sun and well-drained soil in the warm South, or grow the plant in a large pot to move under cover when hard freezes threaten. As a specimen the glossy evergreen leaves, fragrant spring bloom, and heavy gold fruit all earn a place near a patio or entry where the scent can be enjoyed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057836593267,"sku":"ICHA-LEMO-CITR-ICHA-01G","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Ichang_Lemon_Woodlanders2.jpg?v=1731724944"},{"product_id":"citrus-citrus-x-citrus-x-meyeri-meyer","title":"Citrus x meyeri 'Meyer' (Meyer Lemon)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Meyer lemon is the great container citrus, beloved for thin-skinned, deep yellow-orange fruit that is sweeter and less acidic than a true lemon, and for fragrant, purple-tinged white flowers that come more than once a year. A small evergreen tree, the Meyer is thought to be a natural hybrid of lemon and some other citrus, probably a sweet orange or mandarin, which accounts for the mellow, almost floral flavor that has made the fruit a favorite of cooks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lemon carries a bit of history: American plant explorer Frank N. Meyer of the USDA found the tree near Beijing, China, in 1908 and brought it back to the United States, where the fruit has been prized ever since. Hardier than a true lemon but still frost-tender, the Meyer is best grown as a container plant in most of the country, moved under cover before hard freezes, and set outdoors in full sun for the warm months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, grow the Meyer in full sun and sharp, well-drained soil, in the ground only in zones 9 to 11, or in a large pot elsewhere. Site where the fragrant bloom can be enjoyed, keep a plant near the kitchen, and enjoy a steady supply of the best lemon a cook can grow.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057836724339,"sku":"CITR-X-MEYE-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1882.jpg?v=1720137362"},{"product_id":"citrus-x-citrus-poncirus-trifoliata-x-citrus-sinensis-rusk","title":"Citrus 'Rusk'","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmong the very first of the citranges, \u003cem\u003eCitrus\u003c\/em\u003e 'Rusk' dates to 1897, when Walter Swingle crossed a Ruby orange with the tough, cold-hardy trifoliate orange, \u003cem\u003ePoncirus trifoliata\u003c\/em\u003e, in the great effort to breed citrus that could take a freeze. The result is a vigorous, tall-growing, notably hardy tree, evergreen to semi-evergreen, and dense with the distinctive three-parted trifoliate leaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fruit is deep orange and juicy, with, in the old description, a \"sprightly acid flavor and only slightly bitter,\" a citrange that \"approaches edibility more closely than most.\" Straight from the branch the flavor is sharp, but diluted juice with a little sugar makes a good drink, bright and refreshing. This is a plant for the collector of hardy citrus and the gardener who enjoys a bit of citrus history on the tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, grow 'Rusk' in full sun and sharp, well-drained soil, hardier than most citrus and holding through zone 7 winters in a sheltered spot, or in a large container farther north. The fragrant white spring blossom and the deep orange autumn fruit both earn a place; site where they can be enjoyed, and give room for a vigorous, upright tree.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057836789875,"sku":"CITR-PONC-TRIF-RUSK-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-974.jpg?v=1720137369"},{"product_id":"citrus-x-citrus-poncirus-trifoliata-x-citrus-sinensis-troyer","title":"Citrus 'Troyer'","description":"\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders has long led in offering citrus and citrus hybrids hardy well beyond the usual citrus belt, and the Troyer citrange is a classic of the kind. A cross of the Washington navel orange and the inedible but iron-hardy trifoliate orange, \u003cem\u003ePoncirus trifoliata\u003c\/em\u003e, the Troyer was raised in 1909 under the direction of the great citrus breeder Walter Swingle, and later named for A. M. Troyer of Fairhope, Alabama, where the tree first bore fruit, a nice southern footnote for a hardy citrus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Troyer grows as a vigorous, upright small tree with slender, thorny branches and semi-evergreen foliage, hung in season with fragrant white flowers and then with abundant, baseball-sized oranges. The fruit is too sharp to eat straight, but diluted and sweetened the juice makes a tasty, refreshing citrus ade, and the heavy crop is a conversation piece in a southern garden. Long valued as an understock for commercial citrus, the Troyer earns a place on merit of hardiness and looks alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, grow the Troyer in full sun and sharp, well-drained soil, in the ground through zones 8 and 9 or in a large container farther north. Give room for an upright, thorny tree, site the plant back from paths and seating, and place where the spring bloom and the bright autumn fruit can be enjoyed. A hardy, productive, good-looking citrus for the collector and the curious.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057836855411,"sku":"CITR-PONC-TRIF-TROY-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1477.jpg?v=1720137372"},{"product_id":"citrus-x-citrus-ponciris-trifoliata-x-citrus-sinensis-benton","title":"Hybrid Citrus 'Benton' (Poncirus trifoliata x Citrus sinensis)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders has long championed hardy citrus, the trifoliate hybrids that push oranges and their kin well beyond the usual citrus belt, and 'Benton' is one of the toughest of the group. The plant is a citrange, a deliberate cross between the sweet orange, Citrus sinensis, and the hardy trifoliate orange, Poncirus trifoliata, that legendary deciduous, thorny survivor of cold-country citrus breeding. The name citrange simply fuses citrus and orange, and the hybrids inherit the trifoliate orange's remarkable cold tolerance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Benton' originated in Australia and carries the citrange's practical reputation: cold hardy, dense, thorny, clothed mostly in trifoliate leaves, and grown as much for use as for looks. Like most citranges, the fruit is not much for fresh eating, tart and seedy, though the juice, diluted and sweetened, makes a refreshing orangeade. Growers value the plant chiefly as understock, the rootstock onto which more tender citrus is grafted, and 'Benton' has the added quirk of sometimes producing curious fingered fruits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn spring the shrub opens fragrant white flowers, often brushed with purple on the outer petals, the unmistakable perfume of citrus in a plant that can take real frost. That bloom gives way to rounded, orange-like fruit that ripens more cold-tolerant than any true orange thanks to the trifoliate parentage. Unlike a tropical citrus, 'Benton' is only semi-evergreen: in the Deep South the shrub holds much of the foliage through winter, while colder gardens see the leaves thin or drop before spring pushes them back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the garden, 'Benton' works as a hardy, ornamental novelty and a formidable barrier. The dense, thorny frame makes an effective informal hedge or security planting, and the fragrant spring flowers, trifoliate leaves, and odd winter fruit give the plant year-round interest in full sun. Site the shrub in well-drained soil where the spines will not surprise a passerby, and enjoy the rare pleasure of citrus fragrance in a climate too cold for oranges.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhoto credit: UC Riverside, Givaudan Citrus Variety Collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057838297203,"sku":"HYBR-CITR-BENT-PONC-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/ScreenShot2024-07-18at2.12.14PM.png?v=1721326348"},{"product_id":"citrus-x-citrus-poncirus-trifoliata-x-citrus-paradisi-dunstan","title":"Citrumelo 'Dunstan'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCitrumelo\u003c\/em\u003e 'Dunstan' is a hardy heirloom hybrid of the rugged trifoliate orange, \u003cem\u003eCitrus trifoliata\u003c\/em\u003e, and the sunlit grapefruit, \u003cem\u003eCitrus paradisi\u003c\/em\u003e, and from that unlikely marriage comes a fruit and tree of real merit. The golden-yellow globes swell to nearly four inches across, fragrant, and, touched with sugar, carry the tart refreshment of a grapefruit picked a little shy of ripe. Here is fruit both rustic and refined, bred for survival yet still hinting at the orchard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowers have long rated 'Dunstan' the best of the trifoliate hybrids, often called the best overall cross with fifty percent trifoliate parentage, and the praise rests as much on constitution as on flavor. Where ordinary citrus fail at the first hard frost, 'Dunstan' endures, among the hardiest of all citrus, holding ground in southern gardens where grapefruit and orange could never survive. For anyone after both sustenance and experiment, here is a treasure: very hard to find, and worth the search.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tree grows small and handsome, with glossy green leaves that fall in autumn to leave a strong winter silhouette. Fragrant white blossoms open in spring, and by fall the yellow globes ripen into a harvest that is as much story as sustenance. In the garden, 'Dunstan' suits the adventurous grower, the historian of southern gardens, and the lover of hardy heirlooms; give full sun, sharp drainage, and shelter from the worst winter wind, and this small tree will reward the gamble.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057838329971,"sku":"CITR-DUNS-TRIF-PARA-01G","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Citrumelo_Dunstan_Woodlanders_1.jpg?v=1731863357"},{"product_id":"citrus-x-citrus-c-paradisi-x-poncirus-trifoliata-x-c-sinensis-u-s-119","title":"Citrus 'U.S. 119'","description":"\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders has long led in offering citrus and citrus hybrids hardy well beyond the usual citrus belt, and U.S. 119 is one of the most refined of the group. A complex USDA hybrid, a citrumelo crossed back with a sweet orange, the tree runs one quarter trifoliate orange, one quarter grapefruit, and one half sweet orange, a pedigree chosen to keep the toughness of the trifoliate while pushing the fruit toward genuine quality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result shows in the fruit: a handsome orange with a smooth peel and few seeds, the flesh sweet, in the old note, \"with just a touch of trifoliate aftertaste.\" Evergreen and good-looking, U.S. 119 has been said to be quite cold hardy, though, honestly, not yet widely tested, which makes the tree a fine candidate for the adventurous grower willing to trial a promising, little-known citrus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, grow U.S. 119 in full sun and sharp, well-drained soil, in the ground through zones 8 to 10 or in a large container to overwinter farther north. Site where the fragrant white spring blossom and the smooth orange fruit can both be enjoyed, and pair with other hardy citrus in a collector's edible planting. A promising fruit for gardeners pushing citrus toward the colder edge of the map.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057838395507,"sku":"CITR-CITR-C-PARA-03G","price":86.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1827.jpg?v=1720137393"},{"product_id":"citrus-x-citrus-ponciris-trifoliata-x-citrus-reticulata-changsha-x-english-large","title":"Hardy Citrus 'Changsha x English Large'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a cold-hardy citrus hybrid bred to carry oranges into gardens too cold for ordinary citrus, a cross between the trifoliate orange, Poncirus trifoliata, in the large-flowered form called 'English Large', and the notably hardy Changsha mandarin, Citrus reticulata. Both parents are prized for cold tolerance, and stacking the two produces a small, thorny tree that shrugs off freezes that would kill a true orange. The cross matches the well-known US-852 citrandarin, a hardy-citrus line from the USDA breeding program.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is a small, thorny tree, semi-evergreen in mild winters and briefly deciduous in hard ones, carrying fragrant white spring flowers and small orange fruits. The chief value here is toughness rather than dessert quality, since the fruit runs small and seedy, a curiosity and an ornament more than a fresh-eating orange. Where the appeal lies is in growing recognizable citrus, in flower and in fruit, far outside the citrus belt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders has been a leader in cold-hardy citrus for decades, and this Poncirus and Changsha hybrid fits squarely in that tradition, hardy to somewhere near zero degrees and reliable through zone 7. The trifoliate orange parent lends both the cold hardiness and the fierce thorns, which make the tree a formidable barrier or security hedge as well as a conversation piece. Fragrant in spring and studded with little oranges in fall, this is citrus for the adventurous northern gardener.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive the hybrid full sun and well-drained soil, and expect steady growth into a small, well-armed tree. Use the plant as a cold-hardy citrus novelty for the edible-landscape enthusiast, a thorny living fence, or a collector's piece with a real breeding pedigree behind it. For a gardener who has always wanted to grow an orange where oranges are not supposed to grow, few plants are as satisfying.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhoto used is straight Changsha, we do not yet have a photo of this hybrid.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057838461043,"sku":"CITR-PONC-TRIF-CHAN-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Citrus_reticulata_Changsha_Woodlanders_2.jpg?v=1731555826"},{"product_id":"citrus-x-citrus-fortunella-hindsii-x-eustis-limequat-procimequat","title":"Procimequat","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe procimequat is a rare and fascinating citrus hybrid, born from a botanical marriage of the Eustis limequat (itself a cross of kumquat and lime) and the Hong Kong kumquat (\u003cem\u003eFortunella hindsii\u003c\/em\u003e). The result is a precocious, compact plant that combines the zesty lime tang of the limequat parent with the tiny, ornamental charm of the wild kumquats, all on a frame small enough for a patio pot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe fruit is small, bright orange, and marble-sized, ripening abundantly on even the youngest plants. The thin rind is edible and the aromatic juice pleasantly tart, which makes the procimequat a favorite of culinary adventurers and a natural citrus garnish for cocktails, marinades, or a cold cerveza on a hot afternoon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA naturally dwarf citrus, the procimequat is ideal for containers, small gardens, patios, and sunny kitchen courtyards. The plant flowers and fruits prolifically, often within the first year or two, and stays easily at two to four feet with minimal pruning. Fragrant white flowers, attractive foliage, and heavy fruiting make the plant a joy to grow even in tight spaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrow the procimequat in full sun and sharp, acid, well-drained soil, in the ground through zones 8 to 10 or in a large container that can shelter under cover from hard frost farther north. Keep a plant near the kitchen door for fruit and fragrance close at hand, and water steadily through the growing season while never letting the roots stand wet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057838526579,"sku":"CITR-CITR-FORT-HIND-01G","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-973.jpg?v=1720137397"},{"product_id":"citrus-x-fortunella-sunquat","title":"Sunquat Tree","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Sunquat began as an accident in a Beeville, Texas dooryard in the early 1940s, when a man named Leslie Cude noticed a seedling carrying fruit that looked like a small lemon and behaved like a kumquat. Walter Swingle, the great citrus authority of the day, took one look and guessed a cross of Meyer lemon and kumquat, which is where the name Lemonquat comes from and how it entered the collections as Citrus limon × Fortunella. The trouble is that the curators who have kept the tree at Riverside ever since have come to doubt him. The fruit, they think, points to a mandarin somewhere in the parentage rather than a lemon, which would make the plant a mandarinquat wearing the wrong label. Nobody has settled the question. The plant has gone out as Sunquat, Lemonquat, Lemondrop, and Marmaladequat, four names for one tree, each a different theory and not one of them proven. Asking a citrus to hold still long enough to be classified rather misunderstands the family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is not in dispute is the fruit, which comes round to faintly pear-shaped, an inch and a half to three inches across, about the size of a hen's egg, ripening from green to a clear orange-yellow. The peel is thin, soft, and sweet, the flesh sharply acidic beneath, and the whole thing is built to be eaten in hand, skin and all, the way you would a kumquat that had grown up. Picked early the fruit is all bright sourness. Left on the branch into late winter the fruit sweetens, and by March the balance tips toward something you can eat without flinching. Whatever you do not eat goes into marmalade, honest enough that one of the names is built around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey were selected, in the first place, for gardeners whose lemons kept freezing, and that is still the practical case for growing one. They carry enough kumquat in them to take cold that would scorch a true lemon, into the mid-teens once established and dormant, while still handing you a usable acid fruit. They stay compact, six to ten feet in open ground and a good deal less in a pot, which is where most people north of the citrus belt will want the tree: out on the terrace through summer, carried to shelter before the first hard freeze. Give the tree full sun and a container that drains, a clay pot for preference, since the roots resent sitting wet. They are self-fertile, so a single plant fruits alone, and they bloom more than once a year, which means the scent comes back when you have stopped expecting it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA lemon for people who cannot grow lemons, wearing three spare names and answering to none of them. Few plants reward a cold porch, or an argument, quite so well.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057838657651,"sku":"CITR-FORT-SUNQ-01G","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Screenshot2025-10-17at6.45.22AM.png?v=1760698127"},{"product_id":"eremocitrus-x-citrus-glauca-x-meyer-lemon","title":"'Razzlequat' Cold-Hardy Citrus","description":"\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders has long been a leader in offering citrus and citrus hybrids hardy well beyond the usual citrus belt, and the 'Razzlequat' is one of the odder and hardier of the lot. The plant is a cross between the Australian desert lime, \u003cem\u003eEremocitrus glauca\u003c\/em\u003e, a tough, drought- and cold-tolerant native of the arid Australian interior, and, most likely, the familiar 'Meyer' lemon. From the desert lime parent come thorny, wiry branches, small narrow gray-green leaves, and a hardiness and drought tolerance rare among citrus; from the lemon come size and flavor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe small, lemon-shaped fruits are unlike any ordinary citrus. Only semi-segmented inside, the little round, juice-filled vesicles sit loose and separate easily, releasing a bright, distinctly sour juice. Southeastern citrus expert Tom McClendon put it plainly: \"They were tart but good, much like a lime and with no unpleasant aftertaste at all.\" The overall impression is closer to a wild lime than a lemon, useful anywhere a sharp, fragrant citrus juice is wanted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn spring, and sometimes again in late summer, the plant carries fragrant white to pale pink citrus blossoms with the classic sweet perfume of the tribe, followed by the curious fruit. Compact, thorny, and wiry, the 'Razzlequat' makes an intriguing specimen for a hot, sunny spot, a conversation piece in an edible or collector's garden, or a container plant that can be moved under cover where winters bite hardest. The gray-green foliage and dense, spiny habit also lend the plant to an informal, fruiting hedge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive the 'Razzlequat' full sun and sharp drainage, and the desert-lime blood will carry the plant through heat and dry spells that would sulk an ordinary lemon. Hardy in USDA zones 8 through 11 and among the more cold-tolerant citrus hybrids, the plant still appreciates protection from hard freezes, especially while young; gardeners at the cold edge often grow the 'Razzlequat' in a pot for easy winter shelter. For anyone drawn to unusual, tough, genuinely useful citrus, this is a rare and rewarding oddity. Photos courtesy of UCR.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057865527411,"sku":"EREM-GLAU-MEYE-LEMO-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/EremocitrusglaucaxMeyerlemonUCR1.png?v=1744301802"},{"product_id":"fortunella-crassifolia-meiwa","title":"Meiwa Kumquat","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKumquats belong to the rue and citrus family, Rutaceae, and hail from southern China, where they have been grown for centuries; the Meiwa is a naturally occurring hybrid of the round and oval kumquats, long cultivated in the Zhejiang province of China and in Japan, where the fruit is prized above all others for eating fresh. In spring, and often again through the warm season, the glossy little tree covers itself in small white flowers of intense, sweet citrus fragrance, a pleasure in their own right before the fruit ever sets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs citrus go, kumquats are the hardiest and most forgiving, and the Meiwa is no exception, taking cold into the low twenties that would ruin an orange and thriving in a large pot as readily as in the ground. The compact, eight-to-twelve-foot habit, dense, rounded, and evergreen, makes the plant as ornamental as it is productive, and the fruit holds for weeks on the branch, glowing orange against the dark leaves through winter. Woodlanders' stock has shown strong growth here in Aiken, South Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrow the Meiwa kumquat in full sun and well-drained soil, in the ground where winters are mild or in a container that can shelter from hard frost farther north, and site the tree where the winter fruit and the fragrant spring flowers can be enjoyed close at hand, by a door, a patio, or a sunny wall. Few plants are so generous: evergreen structure, sweet perfume, and a long crop of the one citrus you can eat whole, straight from the branch.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42057871556723,"sku":"KUMQ-MEIW-FORT-CRAS-01G","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Kumquat_Meiwa_Woodlanders_1.jpg?v=1731864795"},{"product_id":"fortunella-obovata-changshou","title":"Fortunella obovata 'Changshou'","description":"\u003cp\u003eFortunella obovata 'Changshou' is the Changshou kumquat, the sweetest and most generous of the kumquat tribe, whose fruit swells to the size of a ping-pong ball, far larger than the little oval kumquats most people know. Round to gently obovate, ripening bright orange, that fruit is eaten whole, skin and all, the thin rind sweeter and more tender than any other kumquat's. A compact, dense, thornless evergreen, the Changshou is as pretty in a pot as it is productive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name Changshou means long life in Chinese, and this kumquat has long been treasured across China and Japan, where the plant also goes by the name Fukushu, as an auspicious potted plant carried indoors for the New Year. The broad, rounded leaves set the Changshou apart from the narrow-leaved oval and round kumquats, and the whole plant carries the glossy, tidy good looks that make citrus such rewarding container subjects. Small, white, sweetly fragrant flowers open in spring, sometimes again later, perfuming the air around them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKumquats are among the most cold-hardy of all the citrus, and the Changshou is no exception, taking cold that would harm an orange and holding evergreen through the milder South. Even so, this is citrus, and gardeners north of the warmest zones do best to grow the tree in a large pot that can shelter indoors when hard frost threatens. Give full sun, a free-draining soil, and steady summer water, and expect fruit young, held ornamentally on the branches deep into winter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoodlanders offers the Changshou kumquat as an uncommon fruit worth wider trial in the milder Southeast, a dooryard citrus as ornamental as it is edible. Grow the plant as a patio or courtyard specimen, an evergreen accent by a door where the flowers can be smelled, or a productive container tree, and enjoy the fruit fresh, candied, or in marmalade. 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A natural cross between the mandarin orange, Citrus reticulata, and the kumquat, Fortunella, calamondin is equally at home on a patio or in a bright kitchen window, offering both beauty and bounty the year round.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis small evergreen tree or shrub carries glossy, deep green leaves, fragrant white flowers, and heavy crops of small, round orange fruit like miniature tangerines. Too tart to eat out of hand, the fruit is prized in the kitchen for an intense citrus flavor, perfect for marmalades, marinades, drinks, and preserves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA favorite for container gardening, calamondin stays manageable at four to six feet when potted and pruned, and reaches ten to twelve feet in the ground in frost-free gardens. The plant thrives in full sun and well-drained soil, performs best where winters are mild, and takes well to overwintering indoors in colder regions. With the habit of blooming and fruiting at the same time, calamondin gives a continuous cycle of interest and a bright citrus fragrance indoors or out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy federal citrus quarantine, we cannot ship citrus to Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, or Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058013343859,"sku":"CITR-MITI-CALA-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2150.jpg?v=1720141809"},{"product_id":"x-citrofortunella-thomasville","title":"Thomasville Citrangequat","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Thomasville citrangequat is more than a fruit tree, a living piece of Southern horticultural history. First fruited in Thomasville, Georgia, this remarkable hybrid was raised in 1909 by the legendary USDA citrus breeder Walter T. Swingle and formally named in 1923. The tree stands as a pioneering achievement in citrus breeding: a three-way cross combining the cold-hardy Willits citrange, itself a cross of sweet orange and trifoliate orange, with the Nagami kumquat, Fortunella margarita.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrown on its own trifoliate roots, the Thomasville grows upright and vigorous, with thorny branches and distinctive three-part trifoliate leaves. Fragrant white blossoms in spring give way to abundant, egg-shaped fruit, yellow to orange, that ripens from January into April. The fruit is tart and tangy picked young, mellowing to a pleasantly acidic, kumquat-like flavor when fully ripe, and though somewhat seedy, is prized for a distinctive taste that shines in preserves, marmalades, and citrus-forward cocktails.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat truly sets the Thomasville apart is exceptional cold hardiness. Tolerant down to about ten degrees Fahrenheit, this is one of the most cold-tolerant edible citrus a gardener can grow, well suited to USDA zones 8 to 10. Planted in the ground where winters are mild, or grown in a container and carried to shelter farther north, the tree brings both historic charm and real, practical resilience to the edible landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive the Thomasville full sun to part shade and a well-drained, slightly acidic soil, and site the tree where the fragrant spring bloom and long winter fruit can be enjoyed, and where the thorny branches sit back from a busy path. Self-reliant and productive, a piece of Deep South citrus history that still earns a place in the garden a century on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhotos courtesy of UGA Botanic Gardens and Tom McClendon of McClendon Citrus.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058013409395,"sku":"CITR-THOM-01G","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Thomasvillecitrus.jpg?v=1752849177"},{"product_id":"citrus-x-limon-ponderosa","title":"Citrus 'Ponderosa'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Ponderosa lemon is grown for spectacle as much as for the kitchen. The fruits are enormous, often two to four pounds each, thick-skinned and gloriously bumpy, hanging like green-gold cannonballs among the glossy leaves. For all the size, the flesh is tart, juicy, and true lemon in flavor, and works in any recipe a regular lemon would, with the novelty of a single fruit that can fill a hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe history is tangled, and rather fun. Discovered as a chance seedling in the late nineteenth century, the Ponderosa lemon was long taken to be a cross of lemon, \u003cem\u003eCitrus limon\u003c\/em\u003e, and citron, \u003cem\u003eCitrus medica\u003c\/em\u003e, and is still sold under the old name \u003cem\u003eCitrus\u003c\/em\u003e x \u003cem\u003elimon\u003c\/em\u003e 'Ponderosa'. Recent genetic work tells a different story, pointing instead to a citron and a pomelo, \u003cem\u003eCitrus maxima\u003c\/em\u003e, with little true lemon in the mix at all. The century-old name has stuck all the same, and the giant, fragrant fruit remains as striking as ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn evergreen reaching six to twelve feet, the Ponderosa lemon is frost-tender and best kept to the warmest gardens, zones 9 to 11, or grown in a container that can be carried indoors for winter. The purple-tinged white flowers come nearly year-round, sweetly fragrant, so the plant is rarely without bloom, fruit, or both at once. Site in full sun and sharp, slightly acidic soil, protect from frost, and enjoy a citrus that is equal parts conversation piece and working lemon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhotos courtesy of David Karp and Toni Siebert, CVC.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42231210246259,"sku":"CITR-POND-01G","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Citrusponderosa.png?v=1730338581"},{"product_id":"citrumelo-dallas-trifoliate-x-grapefruit","title":"Citrumelo 'Dallas' (Trifoliate x Grapefruit)","description":"\u003cp\u003eSourced originally from the noted citrus enthusiast Tom McClendon, \u003cem\u003eCitrumelo\u003c\/em\u003e 'Dallas' is a cold-hardy hybrid between the rugged trifoliate orange, \u003cem\u003ePoncirus trifoliata\u003c\/em\u003e, and a grapefruit. From that unlikely pairing comes a vigorous small tree that carries the trifoliate's toughness and a good measure of grapefruit character in the fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe fruits are large and round, with a thick, textured rind and strikingly big seeds, and the flavor is bold, tart, and unmistakably citrus. Too sharp for most palates straight from the branch, the fruit comes into its own in the kitchen: with a little sugar and some patience, 'Dallas' makes a fine marmalade, a bright syrup, or a zesty base for cocktails. This is a plant for the adventurous grower rather than the fruit bowl, and a rare one at that.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, 'Dallas' rewards gardeners who want to push citrus north. Hardier than true grapefruit, the tree will hold in southern gardens where tender citrus cannot, and takes happily to a large container that can be moved under cover for hard freezes. Give full sun, sharp drainage, and shelter from cold winter wind, and site where the fragrant spring blossom and the bold autumn fruit can both be enjoyed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42557519954035,"sku":"CITR-DALL-TRIF-GRAP-01G","price":46.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Citrumelo_Dallas_Woodlanders_Prof_2.jpg?v=1731865268"},{"product_id":"citrus-942","title":"Citrus 942","description":"\u003cp\u003eUS-942 began life as a rootstock, bred by the USDA and released in 2010 after years of Florida field trials, a careful cross of the Sunki mandarin and the curious Flying Dragon form of trifoliate orange, \u003cem\u003ePoncirus trifoliata\u003c\/em\u003e. As a rootstock the record is stellar: compact, productive trees, strong resistance to Phytophthora and tristeza virus, and better tolerance of citrus greening than most, which is why growers across the citrus belt have come to trust the number.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat surprised everyone is the fruit on the rootstock itself. Where most trifoliate hybrids carry the bitter trifoliate aftertaste as a family curse, US-942 mostly sheds it. The little fruits ripen bright orange inside and out, not much larger than a ping-pong ball, thick and soft in the skin like a small mandarin and easy to peel, with juice that runs somewhere between the sweet citrus of a calamondin and the tart brightness of a kumquat, and few seeds. Herschel of Madison Citrus, who knows the tribe as well as anyone, calls US-942 \"one of the best-tasting trifoliate hybrids there is,\" and we would not argue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, grow US-942 in full sun and sharp, well-drained soil, in the ground through the warmer zones or in a large container to overwinter farther north. Hardy, disease-resistant, compact, and productive, the tree suits the collector of unusual citrus and the grower who wants a tough, good-tasting fruit off a plant that asks little. A rootstock that turned out to be worth growing on its own merits.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43081541091443,"sku":"CITR-942-01G","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/WoodlandersCitrus9425.jpg?v=1751369300"},{"product_id":"citrus-1516","title":"Citrus US-1516 (USDA Hardy Rootstock)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery grafted citrus tree is two plants pretending to be one: a familiar fruiting top, and a rootstock below the graft union doing the unglamorous work of roots, vigor, and disease resistance. US-1516 is one of the latter, and a good story all the same. The cross was made by the USDA in 1975, a pairing of opposites: African pummelo, the giant of the genus, crossed with Flying Dragon, the contorted, fiercely thorned, cold-hardy form of trifoliate orange (\u003cem\u003ePoncirus trifoliata\u003c\/em\u003e) that lends so many hardy citrus their backbone. The seedlings went into the ground at the Whitmore farm in Groveland, Florida in 1976 and then, in the patient way of tree breeding, were watched for forty years. Kim Bowman's program at the USDA lab in Fort Pierce released them at last in 2015, into the worst of the huanglongbing epidemic, the bacterial greening disease that has hollowed out Florida's groves. On infected ground they keep their grafted tops healthier and more productive than the old standbys. We offer them ungrafted, which is an unusual thing to sell and an honest one: this is a tree for the cold-hardy citrus tinkerer, the person who wants to practice budding, raise their own understock, or simply grow the trifoliate-blooded foundation and see how far north the plant will go. They come nearly true from seed, vigorous and uniform, and they ask only that you have plans for them. Graft them bold, or just let them teach you the lower half of the tree.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43166257938547,"sku":"CITR-1516-01G","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/WoodlandersCitrus15165.jpg?v=1751370034"},{"product_id":"yuzu-citrus","title":"Yuzu ichandrin","description":"\u003cp\u003eYuzu Ichandrin is not a lemon. This is something older and considerably more interesting, a naturally occurring hybrid between Ichang papeda, Citrus ichangensis, and Satsuma mandarin, long cultivated across the high-elevation citrus regions of China and Japan, and among the most cold-hardy citrus in existence. Where standard yuzu, Citrus junos, and true lemons would surrender to a Southern winter, Ichandrin holds. Mature, established trees have come through ten degrees Fahrenheit with nothing worse than tip dieback. This is, by any honest measure, the citrus a zone 7 or 8 gardener actually gets to keep.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tree is upright and moderately vigorous, with glossy evergreen foliage and the formidable thorns of the papeda parentage, so wear gloves when you prune, and take that seriously. Fragrant white flowers open in spring. The fruit ripens in late autumn, turning from green to deep gold, roughly mandarin-sized, thick-skinned and bumpy, and full of seeds. This is not a fruit to eat out of hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat Yuzu Ichandrin produces is rind and juice of a quality with no real substitute. The aroma is floral, bright, faintly piney, somewhere between lemon, grapefruit, and something with no name in English. Juice and zest are foundational to Japanese and Korean cooking: ponzu, yuzu kosho, dressings, cures, desserts. The zest freezes exceptionally well, which matters, because the harvest window is short and every gram is worth keeping. Our trees are grafted onto trifoliate rootstock for maximum cold hardiness and a quicker path to fruiting, so expect fruit in two to three years from a grafted plant rather than the decade a seedling demands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlant in full sun with well-drained, slightly acidic soil, pH 5.8 to 6.5. In zone 7, site against a south-facing wall and give the tree the first two winters in a container before committing to the ground; zone 8 and warmer can plant straight out. Fertilize three times a year, in late winter, mid-spring, and mid-summer, and never in autumn, which pushes tender growth into cold the tree cannot handle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy federal citrus quarantine, we cannot ship citrus to Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, or Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYuzu Ichandrin is the citrus for gardeners who assumed citrus was simply not for them. As things turn out, the question was only ever which one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"1 Gallon","offer_id":43987494600819,"sku":"YUZU-ICHA-01G","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"3 Gallon","offer_id":43987494633587,"sku":"YUZU-ICHA-03G","price":86.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Yuzutree.jpg?v=1752848515"},{"product_id":"lakeland-limequat","title":"Lakeland Limequat","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Lakeland limequat is a citrus lover's answer to cold: a compact, productive hybrid that pairs the hardiness of the kumquat with the bright, tropical punch of Key lime. One of three limequats bred by W. T. Swingle of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Florida in 1909 and named for the town of Lakeland, this cross (Citrus x floridana) joins the West Indian, or Key, lime with the round Marumi kumquat (Fortunella japonica). The result carries intense citrus flavor on a plant that thrives well beyond the usual citrus belt.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlavor is the whole point. As Craig Hepworth of Florida Fruit Geek describes them, \"'Lakeland' limequats are extremely juicy, with an aroma and taste almost identical to pure Key lime, except not quite as powerful, about 70% as intense.\" The small, oval fruit ripens golden-yellow, with edible, mildly sweet skin and tart, aromatic juice, the whole fruit good fresh, juiced, or turned into a bright, citrusy marmalade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Lakeland limequat tree is exceptionally productive, often fruiting over a long season from fall into early spring, and one Florida grower is said to harvest more than a gallon of fruit a week from a single tree for months on end. Compact and bushy, the tree takes happily to a large container, which puts the fruit within reach of the smallest patio and the coldest gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, grow the Lakeland limequat in full sun and well-drained, slightly acidic to neutral soil, in the ground through USDA zones 8 to 11 or in a pot that can be sheltered when hard frost threatens. Hardy to around twenty degrees Fahrenheit, this little citrus is among the toughest for Southern and marginal gardens, and the fragrant spring flowers perfume the whole area before the long harvest begins. Keep a plant near the kitchen for a steady supply of Key-lime flavor. 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Pop them whole for a sweet-and-sour snap, candy the rinds, slice them into a salad, or simmer the winter harvest into jewel-toned marmalade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKumquats are the odd cousins of the citrus family, small enough that botanists once set them in a genus of their own, \u003cem\u003eFortunella\u003c\/em\u003e, named for Robert Fortune, the Scottish plant hunter who carried the fruit from China to Europe in 1846. The name kumquat comes from the Cantonese for golden orange, and across China the little trees are treasured emblems of prosperity and good fortune, exchanged and displayed heavy with fruit at the Lunar New Year. 'Nagami' is the common oval kumquat, the most widely grown of them all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor a citrus, the Nagami is remarkably obliging. The tree is naturally compact and dense, self-fertile so a single plant sets a full crop with no companion needed, and hardier than most citrus thanks to a semi-dormant winter habit that carries the plant through brief cold into the low twenties. Flowers open in summer and the fruit ripens from late fall through winter, holding on the branch well into spring, prime color in the months when the garden has least to offer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCompact habit makes the Nagami a natural container plant for a sunny patio, a courtyard, a doorway, or a bright window, kept easily to six to eight feet in a pot and around ten to fifteen feet in the ground with light pruning. Grow in full sun and sharply drained soil, in the ground through zones 8 to 10 or in a pot that can move under cover farther north, and keep a plant near the kitchen for fruit off the branch. Pair with rosemary, bay, and other potted Mediterranean plants. 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The oranges are medium-sized and smooth-skinned, nearly seedless, and light on the segment-eating pleasures of a navel, because the real gift is the juice: pale, abundant, and sweet, the classic breakfast-glass orange that helped make Florida famous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe variety began, as so many great fruits do, as a single lucky seedling. In 1879 a seedling sweet orange came up in a grove near DeLand, Florida, on land later worked by Arthur George Hamlin, whose name the tree now carries. The Hamlin might have stayed a local curiosity but for the calamity of the Great Freeze of 1894 and 1895, which killed citrus across the state; the trees proved unusually cold-hardy and quick to bear, and growers rebuilding their groves turned to them in numbers. Out of that hard winter the Hamlin rose to become the leading early-season juice orange of Florida, and remains so today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBotanically the sweet orange, \u003cem\u003eCitrus sinensis\u003c\/em\u003e, belongs to the Rutaceae, the rue and citrus family, and is an ancient hybrid of pomelo and mandarin carried west along old trade routes centuries ago. The waxy white blossoms open in spring with the heavy, honeyed perfume that gives orange groves their reputation, drawing bees before the fruit ever sets. Glossy evergreen leaves clothe the tree year round, so even out of season the Hamlin earns a place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrow the Hamlin in full sun and sharp, well-drained soil, ideally in the warm ground of zones 9 through 11, where the tree makes a productive dooryard orange fifteen to twenty feet tall. Among sweet oranges the Hamlin counts as one of the more cold-tolerant, though a hard freeze will still do damage, so gardeners at the cold edge should site the tree in a warm, sheltered pocket or grow a young plant in a large container that can shelter under cover on the worst nights. Set near a patio or path, the tree pays back in spring fragrance and winter fruit alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43987491160179,"sku":null,"price":86.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Hamlin_Orange_3_2fd005ab-e96a-43a5-b667-c1e35b17f9dc.jpg?v=1760788083"},{"product_id":"indio-mandarinquat","title":"Indio Mandarinquat","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Indio mandarinquat is one of those happy accidents that citrus breeding throws up now and then, a natural cross between a mandarin (\u003cem\u003eCitrus reticulata\u003c\/em\u003e) and a kumquat (\u003cem\u003eCitrus japonica\u003c\/em\u003e) that borrows the best of both parents. From the mandarin come the size, the deep orange color, and the perfume; from the kumquat come the sweet, tender, wholly edible rind and a welcome measure of cold tolerance. The fruits hang like small golden lanterns against dark evergreen leaves through winter, oblong and glossy, and the whole tree carries a poise that belies how easy the plant is to grow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe story behind the name is pure horticultural serendipity. The original seedling appeared, open-pollinated and unbidden, beneath an old Nagami kumquat at UCLA, the pollen parent never recorded. Distinctive enough to be worth saving, the seedling was collected in 1972 at the United States Date and Citrus Station in Indio, California, and that desert town lent the mandarinquat the name carried today. The variety now resides in the Givaudan Citrus Variety Collection at the University of California, Riverside, a quiet pedigree for a fruit still uncommon in gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMandarinquats belong to the small, useful tribe of kumquat hybrids that turn citrus growing on its head, since here the peel is the sweet part and the flesh the tart one, and the fruit is eaten whole, skin and all. Bite into one and the thin rind gives a honeyed, floral brightness before the pulp answers with a lemony tang. Cooks have long prized the mandarinquat for exactly this contrast, candying the fruits, simmering them into marmalade, slicing them into salads, or muddling them into cocktails and syrups where the aromatic, faintly bitter edge does work no ordinary orange can manage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the garden the mandarinquat earns a place as much for looks as for harvest. Compact and evergreen, the tree settles happily into a large container on a sunny patio, anchors an edible landscape, or stands as a small specimen near a door where the fragrant white spring blossoms can be met at close range. Hardier than most sweet citrus, holding to the low twenties Fahrenheit once established, the plant suits gardeners across zones 8 through 11, and farther north takes kindly to a pot that can be wheeled under cover when hard frost threatens. 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