Poncirus Trifoliata (Hardy Orange) (Chinese Orange)

This is a very ordinary looking shrub. You can walk past it without noticing it at all, but at this time of year it is losing its fruit - which are like mandarins but the skin isn't waxy, but downy. If you bring them inside they smell wonderful, like jasmine. The stems have thorns on but these are large and green and again, not very noticeable, but they are a bit like fingernails in the way they grow out of the stem.

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