Small Tuo Mountain Kumquat

Small Tuo Mountain Kumquat

　　    Abundantly grown on Small Tuo Mountain, located on the eastern side of Huangyang Mountain. In this village, it’s common to serve guests tea with a small amount of mountain kumquat. The Small Tuo Mountain Kumquat is popular due to its benefits in relieving coughs, reducing phlegm, promoting urination, stimulating appetite, and treating malnutrition. (Zhuhai)

　　  Small Tuo Mountain Kumquat is abundantly grown on Small Tuo Mountain on the eastern side of Huangyang Mountain in Doumen, Zhuhai. The Small Tuo Mountain Kumquat has aromatic oil in its peel, which is edible and can be used as a flavoring ingredient. It belongs to the Rutaceae family, and its roots and leaves are used medicinally. In this village, it’s common to serve guests tea with a small amount of mountain kumquat. The Small Tuo Mountain Kumquat is popular due to its benefits in relieving coughs, reducing phlegm, promoting urination, stimulating appetite, and treating malnutrition. It can also be made into potted plants for ornamental purposes and is a traditional variety in Zhuhai’s annual flower market, enjoying great popularity.

　　  The mountain kumquat is a thorny shrub, with young branches having distinct edges. Its leaves are simple or pinnately compound, measuring 4–9 cm in length, usually around 4–6 cm, glossy, with almost no wings on the petiole. Flowers are solitary in leaf axils, rarely 2–3 clustered together; sepals are five; petals are five; stamens are twenty. The fruit is spherical or flattened spherical. Ecological habits: prefers warm and sunny environments but is also shade-tolerant.

　　  The root of the mountain kumquat is commonly used medicinally in Guangdong and other regions, largely replacing East Asian Citrus. The leaves of the mountain kumquat are a commonly used medicinal material in the Guangdong and Guangxi regions, listed in the Guangxi Pharmaceutical Standards. They have a fragrant aroma and offer benefits such as dispersing blood stasis, reducing swelling, resolving phlegm, eliminating accumulation, dispelling wind, and detoxifying.