Meiwa Kumquat Reference for the polished trunks that

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

sweetly fragrant and heavy with nectar

the pale makeup of the geisha among the uses

The form is upright and somewhat architectural

That legacy comes with a firm warning

Meiwa Kumquat Reference for the polished trunks thatThe 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.