OTHERS

OTHERS

Citruscentre Special liquid citrus fertilizer. This is essential for healthy, productive plants. Available here.

Lemandarin. We believe this to be a Lemon x Mandarin, but we are still researching it. We named it this for the moment because this best describes the fruit. It looks like a mandarin, but the fruit is bright yellow when ripe. It peels and can be eaten like a mandarin with an unusual tangy flavour.

Fantastico Bergamot. Famous for it's rind oil that is used for aromatherapy and to perfume Earl Grey Tea. The flowers are also extremely scented although the fruit is not that palatable it can be used in place of Sevilles.

Murcott Tangor. Also known as the Honey Tangerine. A vigorous bushy variety, with a mandarin type fruit, which is exceedingly rich and can be very sweet.

Ortanique Tangor Originating in Jamaica, it has a trademark on its name so is called Topaz in Israel, Tambor in South Africa, Mandora in Cyprus and Australique in Australia. Very vigorous and productive an excellent hybrid.

Ugli Tangelo This famous natural hybrid is thought to be a grapefruit x mandarin.
Large knobbly fruit are its trademark and it was discovered in Jamaica in 1914. Traditionally it is eaten like a grapefruit but we just peel an eat them like an orange. The flavour and texture is uniquely rich.

Robinson Tangerine. A cross between a Clementine and an Orlando Tangelo. This plant produces wonderfully deep red/orange Clementine like fruit. The fruit is mainly produced at the ends of the branches making this plant one of the prettiest when "mandarins" in fruit.

Calamondin Orange. Small Sour orange like fruit are produced on this plant which is rarely without fruit and flowers. It is very ornamental. The fruit makes a wonderful marmalade also good in drinks and for cooking. Ideal as a beginner’s plant on a windowsill, in a greenhouse or conservatory.

£25 Size Approx. 18 inch bush

£35 Size Approx. 2 ft standard

£45 Size Approx. 2 ft bush

£65 Size Approx. 3 ft semi-standard

Variegated Calamondin Orange. Variegated form, slower growing than its green cousin otherwise very similar in habit.

Ellendale Tangor. Believed to be a tangor, it was discovered in 1878 in Australia. Produces large thin-skinned fruit with good tangy flavour, which hang well on the tree without becoming puffy.

Nagami Kumquat. This is the variety normally found in supermarkets. Oval in shape the fruit has a sweet skin and a sour flesh and can be eaten whole or used in cooking . This is the variety normally found in supermarkets.

Kucle. A kumquat mandarin hybrid of Sicilian origin we believe. It produces fruit about twice the size of the Nagami Kumquat, which when left to fully ripen are deliciously tangy and juicy. The plant is very ornamental.

Tiny pea sized fruits are produced on this unusual kumquat which is slow growing and is sometimes used to produce fascinating bonsai plants. (Quite tricky but rare!)

Eustis Limequat. As the name suggests, a cross between a lime and a kumquat, producing delicious spicy, small yellow fruit.

Bouquet de Fleur. . A sour orange with beautiful leaves much revered for the scent of its flowers, which are harvested for neroli oil used in perfume production and aromatherapy.

Buddha’s Hand Citron. . . A most extra-ordinary fruit. Each segment is completely surrounded by its own skin, giving the appearance of fingers. The fruit is used in China and Japan for perfuming rooms and is a symbol of wealth and happiness.

Poncirus trifoliata. A citrus with a difference this plant is deciduous and hardy down to about –20C but the fruit is not all that palatable. It is a beautiful thorny bush which has been used as a rootstock for hundreds of years.

Poncirus trifoliata "Flying Dragon" A citrus with a difference this plant is deciduous and hardy down to about –20C but the fruit is not all that palatable. This Cultivar is used as an extremely dwarfing rootstock and gets it name from its thorns which are wonderfully curved and remind one of dragon's spines.