Fortunella obovata 'Changshou' Drought Tolerant The habit is improbably tidy

The habit is improbably tidy for a foundling

each crowned with several large white flowers whose narrow segments splay outward like pale spider legs around a central membranous cup

the plant is dioecious

oblong leaves

Fortunella obovata 'Changshou' Drought Tolerant The habit is improbably tidyFortunella 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