They're mentioned often around these parts, mainly because of how young they bloom, but for the life of me I cant find out much else about them!

What do they taste like?
What do they look like?
Where would you find one?
What's the appeal of one?
etc...

Google hasn't helped me at all, but I'm hoping some of you fine folks can.

No commercial use - fruit not really edible. It's about the size of a pea and usually contains a seed or two and not much else.
The parent Fortunella hindsii is an interesting citrus because it has the smallest fruits and is said to be quickest to mature from seed.
Produces a nice ornamental potted plant.

This is what i found about them :

The Procimequat is a man-made cross between the two varieties Eustis limequat and the Golden Bean kumquat. Procimequats are a great tree for container culture, as are both of its parents.

You better use ixquick to surch !!

If you did eat a procimquat what do they taste like? I know its just peel and seeds so you'd be eating a bit of peel, but what does this actually taste like? Sweet? Bitter? I did a search on the net and found nothing except this thread.

I also tried to find how hardy procimquats are with no luck either. Anyone have a figure for how hardy they are?

The fruit is about the size of small grape, maybe smaller. Up to around the size of ones thumbnail. It is orange in color, with a thin sweet peel but with little flesh (what there is is tart). Normally has 1 to 3 seed that which pretty much fill the inside of the fruit, leaving little to eat. As previously stated, the seed will often bear the same year planted.

I grow some from seed to sell, and have found that I sometimes get what appears to be hybrid seedlings. I have three of the hybrids now. Two have had fruit and one tastes pretty good. Like the procimequat parent, they started bearing early. Both fruits are small, but larger than a Procimequat.

They are hardy to below 20 degrees f. I know of one in Aiken, SC that has survived outside for years. Without checking, I believe Aiken is in USDA zone 8b.

Ned

I find Ned's comments interesting, showing the differences a citrus fruit can have. Ned grows his Procimquats in South Carolina. I have 3 Procimquat trees growing in Colorado. After reading Lemandarangequatelo's post, I ate a couple Procimquats this afternoon to evaluate the taste. The ones I ate, which as Ned wrote, consist mainly of just the peel. There was almost no taste at all, certainly no sweet taste, just a slight musty after taste . The fruit was completely mature, perhaps a little over mature. In my estimation, the only value of the tree is as a collector item, or as a landscape ornamental. - Millet (901 speeches STNI-)

Ned and Millet thank you very much for the valuable information, very interesting indeed!

I guess it would be more accurate to say slightly sweet peel, similar to other citrus with edible peel. I agree that Procimequat should not be considered an edible, but it does make an attractive and interesting ornament, being evergreen and holding its fruit into spring.

Ned

http://www.citrusvariety.ucr.edu/citrus/procimequat.html

Just to clear things up, they do NOT go well with Corona !

Fascinating. How would one go about getting an odd variety like this?