What season is loquat? Brief introduction of loquat

1. Loquat is a fruit in late spring and early summer, which ripens from March to June every year.

2. Loquat is native to Gansu, Shaanxi, Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian and Taiwan Province provinces in China; Widely cultivated in various places, Sichuan and Hubei have wild ones. Japan, India, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand and Indonesia are also cultivated. Loquat is suitable for warm and humid climate, and it needs high temperature during its growth and development. The annual average temperature 12- 15℃, not less than -5℃ in winter, and not less than 0℃ in flowering and young fruit period.

3. It belongs to Rosaceae and Loquat. Small evergreen trees, up to 10 m; Branchlets are stout, yellow-brown, densely rusty or grayish brown tomentose. Leaf blade leathery, lanceolate, oblanceolate, obovate or oblong, 12-30 cm long and 3-9 cm wide. Panicle terminal, long 10- 19 cm, many flowers; Total pedicels and pedicels are densely covered with rust-colored villi; Pedicel 2-8 mm long; Bracts subulate, 2-5 mm long, densely covered with rust-colored villi; Flower diameter 12-20mm. The fruit is spherical or rectangular, 2-5 cm in diameter; Seed 1-5, spherical or oblate, diameter 1- 1.5 cm, brown, shiny, and the seed coat is papery. Flowering 10- 12, fruiting in May-June.

Loquat is a beautiful ornamental tree and fruit tree. Sweet fruit, used for raw food, candied fruit and wine making; Leaves are dried and depilated, which can be used as medicine, and have the effects of resolving phlegm and relieving cough, regulating stomach and reducing qi. Wood is reddish brown and can be used as combs, walking sticks, agricultural tool handles, etc.