The flowers are produced in early spring, 2 cm diameter with five white petals. The fruit is a drupe 4-7 cm in diameter with yellow-pink flesh harvested in the summer.
It is cultivated worldwide for its fruit which is produced from white flower. The fruit is widely appreciated for its characteristic aroma, bright red color, juicy texture, and sweetness.
The flowers are 2–4.5 cm in diameter, with five white to pinkish petals; they are produced singly or in pairs in early spring before the leaves. The fruit is a drupe similar to a small peach, 1.5–2.5 cm diameter from yellow to orange, often tinged red on the side most exposed to the sun; its surface can be smooth or velvety with very short hairs.
Its fruit is “one of the sweetest citrus varieties, with a meltingly tender texture” and usually seedless, about the size of other mandarin oranges (Citrus reticulata).
The flowers are white, with pink stamens, 3–5 cm in diameter, larger than those of true citrus but otherwise closely resembling them.The fruits are green, ripening to yellow, and 3–4 cm in diameter, resembling a small orange, but with a finely downy surface.
The male cylindrical catkins are developed from leafless shoots from the past year; they are about 10 cm in length and have a large number of little flowers. Female flowers appear in a cluster at the peak of the current year’s leafy shoots.
The flowers are fragrant,five- to six-petalled, white at first, changing to buff-yellow, both sexes have central tufts of many stamens, though those of the female flowers with no viable pollen.The oblong fruit with russet-brown skin of the fruits is densely covered with short, stiff, brown hairs.
Leaves are ecologically important as the sole food source of the silkworm, the cocoon of which is used to make silk, Berry is used as food ripen in autumn.
The flowers of both sexes are borne in 7–20 cm long, upright catkins, the male flowers in the upper part and female flowers in the lower part. They appear in summer, and by autumn, the female flowers develop into spiny cupules containing 3–7 brownish nuts that are shed during October.
