Tavares Limequat

The 1923 description identifies Tavares as CPB 48792, a Key (Mexican) lime × oval kumquat hybrid. The selection is named for the Florida town adjoining Eustis; Frank W. Savage’s grove between the towns is where the limequats were produced.^⁠[3]

The original technical description calls Tavares fruit obovate or oval, occasionally nearly spherical. It describes a very thin, smooth, tender, edible rind; 7–8 segments and 6–11 large seeds, usually 8 or 9; and mustard-yellow, juicy pulp described as “sharply acid.”^⁠[3]

The original description calls Tavares an evergreen, vigorous tree with short spines on bearing wood. Its pinkish flower buds distinguish it from the pure-white buds described for Eustis.^⁠[3]