Growing Loquats in Australia

The Most Overlooked Fruit TreeThe loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) is one of the great underappreciated plants of Australian horticulture. It is extraordinarily beautiful year-round — an evergreen tree with large, ribbed, dark green leaves and russet-felted new growth — and produces abundant crops of sweet-tart fruit in late winter to spring when almost nothing else is fruiting. Yet it remains relatively rare in Australian gardens.Growing RequirementsThe loquat is extraordinary in its climatic a…