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World of CitrusWorld of CitrusNagami Kumquat
University of California, Riverside — Citrus Variety Collection
https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc132 (opens in a new tab)
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alexFortJames · YouTube · 2026-03-07
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EeJomXg76Y (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: English automatic captions reviewed 0:00–17:45 of 17:48. All tasting samples had been refrigerated through winter; raw timestamped capture is retained in the Thomasville citrangequat research archive.
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cowboyV2 · YouTube · 2021-06-02
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrneR16LoI0 (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: English auto-generated captions reviewed 0:00–7:37 of 7:43. At a western-U.S. USDA Zone 8b ranch, the speaker says Nagami kumquat was one of two citrus types that persisted after prior citrus attempts; the source does not state its rootstock, plant age, tree-level minimum temperature, or fruit traits.
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Real Life Fruitopia · YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM6b0nR8sY8 (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: English auto-generated captions reviewed 0:01–17:56 of 18:00. In a Melbourne backyard video, the presenter compares a Nagami kumquat sample with fruit from his Calamondin/Calamansi tree. At 13:12–16:42, he describes Nagami as juicier, more spritzy, flavorful/tasty, and preferred overall; he calls Nagami peel soft and Calamondin peel crunchy. At 14:07–16:09 he rates overall taste quality 8/10 for Nagami versus 6/10 for Calamondin; these are preference scores, not sweetness or sourness intensity measurements. Single speaker/sample context; Nagami accession, rootstock, fruit maturity criteria, tree age, and matched sampling method are not provided.
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Edge of Nowhere Farm · YouTube · 2019-01-08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksyNLe6LUc4 (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: English auto-generated captions reviewed 4:20–6:46 of a 17:20 video. The presenter describes a container-grown Nagami specimen and one fruit sample. The raw timestamped transcript is retained in the Fukushu source archive.
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Gardening and Cooking Made Easy · YouTube · 2021-03-23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f4gAas1yjE (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: English auto-generated captions reviewed 13:48–15:49 of a 16:44 video. The transcript separately identifies an Arizona-grown Nagami in a 30-gallon grow bag and reports its placement and watering. The raw timestamped transcript is retained in the Fukushu source archive.
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Ed Able Solutions · YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdQuitrtEeo (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: English auto-generated captions reviewed 0:03–7:48. At France Nursery, the speakers compare identified Nagami and Fukushu varieties: Nagami fruit is described as oval-oblong with a thin skin, and the Nagami leaf as smaller and more pointed (3:43–4:20; 6:24–6:36). Specific accession, sample, rootstock, and growing location are not provided. Exact publication date was not verified.
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Steven Murray’s Rare Fruit! · YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxy8_2KbjWw (opens in a new tab)
Summary from transcript: English auto-generated captions reviewed 0:00–3:14 of a 3:19 video. At 1:45–2:00 the presenter identifies Nagami as the more traditional, longer kumquat and says it comes into season later. The surrounding phrase about sweetness is relative and is not imported as an absolute taste claim. No exact publication date, site, rootstock, or sample context was verified.
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NoUsernameEn · Reddit, r/Citrus · 2022-09-05
Realtorbyday’s comment (line 48) describes their family-grown Nagami as very tart, alongside their Meiwa and Fukushu. This is an anecdotal qualitative report; no specimen, location, maturity or measurement is given.
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Growing Fruit · 2023-07-13
https://growingfruit.org/t/meiwa-kumquat-tree/55576 (opens in a new tab)
Post 15 (Gkight, September 19, 2023) reports that their Nagami did not have the second bloom observed on their own Meiwa and Marumi that season. This is one grower’s dated plant observation, not a general flowering pattern.
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University of California, Riverside — Citrus Variety Collection
https://citrusvariety.ucr.edu/crc3877 (opens in a new tab)
Reviewed from the existing local UCR capture dated 2026-09-18; no fresh page access in this pass. UCR identifies CRC 3877 / PI 539729 / VI 276, records the accession as received in 1965 as budwood from John Carpenter’s yard in Indio via CCPP, lists parents unknown and Carrizo citrange rootstock, and provides Riverside season and cultivar-description sections. The cultivar description is from The Citrus Industry, volume 1 (1967). Keep accession provenance and Riverside observations distinct from cultivar-wide or independently verified genetic claims.
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seth___rraf · Reddit, r/Citrus
https://www.reddit.com/r/Citrus/comments/1jotn1w/nagami_kumquat/ (opens in a new tab)
The page displays relative comment ages only; exact comment dates were not recovered. werpu describes a Nagami rind as sweet and flesh as sour and refreshing, and says they preferred it to their Meiwa; this is one commenter’s taste account with no location, sample count, maturity, or measurement. Rcarlyle reports a variable tart-to-sweet flavor depending on individual fruit and time left on the tree, also without sample or site details. Other comments discuss Nordmann separately; those claims are not assigned to Nagami.
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anon47724557 · Growing Fruit · 2021-07-15
https://growingfruit.org/t/kumquats/38476 (opens in a new tab)
The opening post (#1, July 15, 2021) describes an ordinary Nagami as oval and sour, separately from the writer’s Nordmann Seedless tree and other kumquat varieties. These are the author’s qualitative observations; no Nagami location, rootstock, fruit count, or measured taste value is given. The reported bark banking and stump recovery refer to the separately named Nordmann Seedless tree, not ordinary Nagami.
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Growing Fruit · 2025-03-08
Page 30 contains post #599 by JohnS (March 8, 2025; signature PDX OR), who says ordinary Nagami is common locally and quite sour, while explicitly saying they do not know whether OP Nagami is different. This is the commenter’s qualitative context, not an OP Nagami report or measured tasting. Nearby posts on Virginia grower hardiness are secondhand and are not treated as a measured threshold.
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Robert Willard Hodgson · University of California, Division of Agricultural Sciences · 1967
Chapter 4, Nagami kumquat profile. Hodgson reports the oval or Nagami kumquat was introduced into Europe in 1846 by Robert Fortune, who collected it in China for the London Horticultural Society. This is a retrospective attributed account and supports the year, not an exact day.
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