yes this is 100% Eriobotrya japonica, *It is an evergreen large shrub or small tree, with a rounded crown, short trunk and woolly new twigs. The tree can grow to 5-10 m tall, but is often smaller, about 3-4 m.
The leaves are alternate, simple, 10-25 cm long, dark green, tough and leathery in texture, with a serrated margin, and densely velvety-hairy below with thick yellow-brown pubescence; the young leaves are also densely pubescent above, but this soon rubs off. Loquat with fruits. Loquat with fruits. Loquats are unusual among fruit trees in that the flowers appear in the autumn or early winter, and the fruits are ripe in late winter or early spring. In Northern California, loquats bear fruit in May, while in Southern California, loquats bear fruit in April. The flowers are 2 cm diameter, white, with five petals, and produced in stiff panicles of three to ten flowers. The flowers have a sweet, heady aroma that can be smelled from a distance. Loquat fruits, growing in clusters, are oval, rounded or pear-shaped, 3-5 cm long, with a smooth or downy, yellow or orange, sometimes red-blushed skin. The succulent, tangy flesh is white, yellow or orange and sweet to subacid or acid, depending on the cultivar. Each fruit contains five ovules, of which three to five mature into large brown seeds. The skin, though thin, can be peeled off manually if the fruit is ripe. Loquat in flower. This is a cultivar intended for home-growing, where the flowers open gradually, and thus the fruit also ripens gradually, compared to the commercially grown species where the flowers open almost simultaneously, and the whole tree's fruit also ripens together. Loquat in flower. This is a cultivar intended for home-growing, where the flowers open gradually, and thus the fruit also ripens gradually, compared to the commercially grown species where the flowers open almost simultaneously, and the whole tree's fruit also ripens together. The fruits are the sweetest when soft and yellow. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loquat";>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loquat </a>* On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Devendra Bhardwaj < [email protected]> wrote: > > > --- On *Tue, 11/8/09, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> > Subject: [indiantreepix:15728] Re: ID(ID-DKB155) > To: "devendra bhardwaj" <[email protected]>, "indiantreepix" < > [email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, 11 August, 2009, 8:26 PM > > My vague guess is Eriobotrya japonica > > Gurcharan Singh > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* devendra bhardwaj<http://mc/[email protected]> > *To:* indiantreepix <http://mc/[email protected]> > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 11, 2009 7:39 PM > *Subject:* [indiantreepix:15724] ID(ID-DKB155) > > Hello, > > For ID Plant from Mt.Abu.It is a tree. > > For ID(ID-DKB155) > > Photo Taken on-6.8.2006 > > Regard > > Devendra > > > > > ------------------------------ > Yahoo! recommends that you upgrade to the new and safer Internet Explorer > 8<http://in.rd.yahoo.com/tagline_ie8_1/*http://downloads.yahoo.com/in/internetexplorer/> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "indiantreepix" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
