Re: 'Nuptial Trees'
Cali Doxiadis wrote:
>
> OK:
> I've researched it on the web and compared photographs.
> Eriobotrya japonica, (or Japanese medlar) whose fruit mature in May or
> June, is one plant. The one most of us know as loquat.
> Mespilus germanica, whose fruit mature in November, is another plant.
> (This is the one I know as "Winter nespola" ) It is known as a
> "medlar" too. Whence the confusion arises.
> PS. One amusing tidbit I gleaned during my research, is that a common
> name in England for the second plant is "Open-Arse-Fruit-Tree" .
> Makes all the fuss worthwhile!
Well
Having eaten both sorts of fruit in my life, I would plump for the
Loquat every time, even without that PS <G>.
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata (near Wellington, capital city of New Zealand)
