While oval-shaped Nagami kumquat fruit is less than an inch in diameter and a little over an inch long, a calamondin fruit (a hybrid between a kumquat and a mandarin orange) is a 1-to-2-inch globe.

Daniel Goldberg of Richmond’s Feral Ecology invited the public to join in its summer harvest of backyard and streetside loquat trees this year, and a plum harvest is up next.

Sweet, tart, bright, and easy to eat, clementines and mandarins may seem like one in the same. However, there are actually some key differences.