On a recent warm May day, bundles of small sun-kissed-colored fruit droop from a towering tree in Raffy Espiritu's backyard ...

“It’s beautiful, the fruit and the leaves of the tree,” Espiritu said. “It’s very, very awesome.” Loquat fruit grows on a tree owned by Raffy Espiritu, of Milpitas, in his backyard in ...

See About archive blog posts. It’s hard not to like the loquat. The tree is small, easy to grow, doesn’t need much room, has big-veined tropical-looking leaves, fragrant flowers and ...

Nobody ever bothered to harvest it, so fallen fruit littered the asphalt. The neglected tree was a loquat, part of a community garden at Woodrow Wilson High School in L.A.’s El Sereno neighborhood.

Q. When I purchased my house in 1996, the builder included a loquat tree in the landscaping package. I like the tree as it blends in nicely with the front of the house. Although the tree has grown ...

Do you know loquat? I'll bet you do — even if you don't. Know it but don't appreciate it? Let's pause a moment to adore this little fruit. . . . Small oblong sun, cousin to the peach Your ...

The loquat fruits grow 1 1/2 to 2 inches, while the loquat tree can grow up to 25 feet high, according to a Texas A&M website about Texas citrus and subtropical fruits. In the U.S., loquats are ...

A friend from church had a huge brown turkey fig tree that was always plentiful with delicious figs. A few months ago I was popping loquat fruits and spitting out the seeds as I visited a local ...