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Olafhenny · 03-16-2012, 07:43 AM

…and the size makes them suitable as indoor plants. Okay, I am finally back from
Vietnam with loads of pictures.
This time I was a “good boy” and did not bring back any plants. My great discovery on this trip was
the Quất, a very attractive
cultivar of the round kumquat family.

Oh, I have noticed that showy little tree before. After all, you cannot miss it if you visit Vietnam
during Tet, and I have done that twice before. But what is different this time, that I spotted this
plant, which was only 15” high form soil level to top of the tip of the highest leaf and sported 15 fruit.

Here are three other pics, not my own, but downloaded from the website, linked at the bottom
of this post:

Of course it was kept at that size by judicious pruning That sparked my curiosity and I did
some i-net searches:

The translation of quất ranges according to translate.google.com from kumquat to blueberry.

This is what I have come up with by going with kumquat through German to French and back to
German where the alternative translation to "die Kumquat" is "Zwergorange" which means in English
'dwarf orange' and that seemed to fit.

That finally led me to the Latin Fortunella Japonica. But the pictures did not match. The leaves are
too large and the fruit are spaced much too far apart.

Finally I ended up with the cultivar Tắc, Hạnh, Quất, Rutaceae. Họ Cam Quýt
Botanic name: Fortunella japonica (Thunberg) Swingle. Hereafter just “Quất”

- reputedly the most hardy citrus fruit, “can withstand -10^C without suffering damage”
- in Vietnam predominantly raised in (smallish) pots.
- from what I can see here (confirmation is difficult, due to language problem), the fruits appear
to stay on the trees for at least six weeks.
Quất info:
quất Tết - Tìm với Google

I have some seeds available, if you send me a PM with your address

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Olafhenny Olafhenny's Photo Gallery Location: Penticton, BC, Okanagan Valley, Canada Find me on the map! Zone: Hardiness Zone 6 Name: Olaf Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 1,705 BananaBucks : 246,041 Feedback: 0 / 0% Said "Thanks" 2,050 Times Was Thanked 2,012 Times in 876 Posts Said "Welcome to Bananas" 77 Times	Seeds for Quất, possibly the most attractive and hardy citrus… …and the size makes them suitable as indoor plants. Okay, I am finally back from Vietnam with loads of pictures. This time I was a “good boy” and did not bring back any plants. My great discovery on this trip was the Quất, a very attractive cultivar of the round kumquat family. Oh, I have noticed that showy little tree before. After all, you cannot miss it if you visit Vietnam during Tet, and I have done that twice before. But what is different this time, that I spotted this plant, which was only 15” high form soil level to top of the tip of the highest leaf and sported 15 fruit. Here are three other pics, not my own, but downloaded from the website, linked at the bottom of this post: Of course it was kept at that size by judicious pruning That sparked my curiosity and I did some i-net searches: The translation of quất ranges according to translate.google.com from kumquat to blueberry. This is what I have come up with by going with kumquat through German to French and back to German where the alternative translation to "die Kumquat" is "Zwergorange" which means in English 'dwarf orange' and that seemed to fit. That finally led me to the Latin Fortunella Japonica. But the pictures did not match. The leaves are too large and the fruit are spaced much too far apart. Finally I ended up with the cultivar Tắc, Hạnh, Quất, Rutaceae. Họ Cam Quýt Botanic name: Fortunella japonica (Thunberg) Swingle. Hereafter just “Quất” - reputedly the most hardy citrus fruit, “can withstand -10^C without suffering damage” - in Vietnam predominantly raised in (smallish) pots. - from what I can see here (confirmation is difficult, due to language problem), the fruits appear to stay on the trees for at least six weeks. Quất info: quất Tết - Tìm với Google I have some seeds available, if you send me a PM with your address __________________ The reason I joined this forum was to share experiences, my own and those of others and to learn from them. Last edited by Olafhenny : 03-16-2012 at 07:46 AM.