Fortunella obovata 'Changshou' Drought Tolerant each crowned with several large

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

this member of the heath family grows wild in only a scattering of Georgia localities and almost nowhere else on earth

Come autumn

harlandii reads as a set of small deliberate lines

lovely at a woodland edge or in a native border among azaleas and dogwoods of the same season

Fortunella obovata 'Changshou' Drought Tolerant each crowned with several largeFortunella 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