Re: loquat was: Looking for Acacia smallii ....
Wanted to but in on this one. Like Shirley, I can relate to growing them
in Hawaii. Threre were a few trees growing in the gulch behind my home in
Kohala, and they would grow in the deep shade under the mango trees. Later
I had the opportunity to eat them in Kula (where I will be moving in about
a month). In Kula it gets down to the high 30's F (frost some times also)
and it was awesome eating them chilled right off the trees. I have been
told that they are also fairly common in the southern areas of Japan (My
wife got to eat a whole bunch when she visited). Seems to reason that
because it is commercially grown in Japan that they may have developed
cultivares that are more cold tolerant. Any ideas on this?
MTF
>At 12:58 PM 3/12/99 -0800, Shirley Kinoshita wrote:
>
>Loquats will grow and survive quite cool temperatures here. There is a well
>known specimen in Ness Gardens. Alas it does not fruit! But some years ago
>an international canning company with HQ in Liverpool used a photograph of
>this tree together with imported fruits on the labels of its tinned loquats.
>>Gary,
>>I planted a loquat sapling in my backyard about 10 years ago. Was sold to
>>me by an elderly Sicilian gentleman for $1 at local flea market. It
>>only started flowering and fruiting this year. Has been hardy enough to
>>withstand cooler California temperatures, although I remember picking
>>fruit from my father's backyard in Hawaii where the temperatures are
>>warmer.
>>
>>Thanks for mentioning this tree which I've seem in vacant lots around
>>here. Some are called bronze loquat and seems to be drought resistant.
>>
>>Shirley Lin Kinoshita
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>Colette Dunkley Upton Wirral Merseyside England L49 4PD (Approximates
>USDA Zone 8 /9)
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