Indio Mandarinquat Gene Cline Each flower opens enormous

Each flower opens enormous

The honey-scented

the Swedish botanist and teacher of Linnaeus

yet adaptable to ordinary moist garden soil

and almost no one knows it

Indio Mandarinquat Gene Cline Each flower opens enormousThe Indio mandarinquat is one of those happy accidents that citrus breeding throws up now and then, a natural cross between a mandarin (Citrus reticulata) and a kumquat (Citrus japonica) 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