ORNAMENTALS
Buddas Hand Citron - Highly prized in China and Japan for its
perfumed aroma. The fruit has yellow rind and contains no flesh or seeds.
Small tree.
Chinotto - Slow growing, weeping habit with its abundance of fruit
make it ideal small specimen tree for the patio. Very small leaves.
Kumquat - Kumquat trees are small and shapely with dense foliage,
and make attractive ornamental shrubs ideally suited to tubs. They are
very hardy and after a long, warm summer, produce heavy crops of small,
round, waxy, golden yellow to orange fruit. Pulp is juicy and acid-sweet.
Use in marmalade, preserves, or eat if fresh - skin and all.
Limequat - Cross between Mexican Lime and Kumquat. The smooth rind
is light yellow when fully mature and can be eaten sweet flavour without
bitterness. Fruit have juicy flesh with acid flavour and can be used as a
lime substitute.
Variegated - Eureka Introduced from California. Very attractive
ornamental cultivar. Fruit smaller than Eureka, often ribbed, and the
young fruitlets are variegated.
Variegated - Villa Franca - Similar to variegated Eureka Thornless
variety and very ornamental.
