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Yesterday I have replanted my in ground Flying Dragon. It's in our garden for more than a year now, but it was in an unlucky place where it didn't get much sun and was surrounded with other plants, leaving it not much room.

This is a photo I already posted earlier in this thread, when I just got the plant:...


A (not so clear) look at the plant at it's original location:...


The plant at it's new location:...


The plant has clearly grown bigger since I first got it. I was surprised to find that the size of the root ball had increased a lot compared to the size of the pot the plant came in.

Nice plant. That concrete wall should help in the winter.

Flying dragon is a work of art when it drops it's leaves. They look like a modern art.

it looks great, indeed!

One of the oranges of my moro plant dropped off today. The oranges are still pretty small, about the size of a mandarin, but they are about ripe now.

The fruit was easy to peel and was easily split into parts. Not a single trace of blood inside...

The fruit tasted surprisingly good , almost exactly as I like oranges best. It was sweet with enough acidity. I never expected that. I have had other oranges on that same tree that didn't taste bad but not particularly good either...

Unfortunately no pictures... but I have more oranges waiting on the tree!

My new plant arrived today: a Yuzu!

The leaves look unusually big for yuzu, but otherwise very nice plant.

i´ve got a lot of yuzu in my little collection and the leaves looks quit similar. But i also got 2 old Yuzu 1 from B.Voss in Hamburg and one from a guy in Holland and they have small leaves which in my opinion looks more like Ichangensis. I was told it was Yuzu therefor i kept the tags that way. I got yuzu seeds from different members of this forum all from US and the leaves on the seedlings and small trees are all with bigger leaves like MarcV´s.

The leaves on the top branch are a little larger than the other leaves, but they don't seem unusually large to me.

This plant is from Bachès in France. They have a good reputation, I'm sure the plant is a real yuzu...

The scent of the leaves is different from the other citrus I have. It reminds me a little of the scent of bergamot leaves.

I picked a few oranges from my moro tree today. No blood but good, fresh taste.
The fruits aren't very large, about mandarin sized. Not bad for a way-out-of-the-citrus-belt-grown orange I guess...







I guess the fruits could have been larger had we had a better summer...

What I do notice is some pricking(?) feeling on my tongue after eating the orange, as if I would have chewed the peel. Can anyone explain this?

Last thursday yet another plant arrived to join my collection! This time it's a microcitrus australasica "citrus caviar", again from Bachès in France.



Just like with all plants that I bought in the past, this will be the very last plant I will buy!

As a little bonus for being such a good customer I received a second smaller plant, also a citrus caviar, but another variety. The large plant is grafted on poncirus. The smaller one is rooted.

I also eat a moro just now,very tasty but small,no red.