On a recent warm May day, bundles of small sun-kissed-colored fruit droop from a towering tree in Raffy Espiritu's backyard in Milpitas. They soak in the light and ripen in the heat before suddenly ...

The loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) is a versatile fruit tree that needs sun and warmth to produce a good crop of highly ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...