Friday, March 27, 2009

Re: Last Friday's posting

For a long time during my adult years I thought loquat was not real. I had not seen one since my childhood. Perhaps I dreamed it. I might mention it to someone who thought I meant kumquat. I didn't mean kumquat. It is not the same fruit at all. Most people have never heard of a loquat.


I was troubled by this, since I think I have a good memory and was sure I had seen and eaten loquats. Yellow, delicious, large brown seed inside.


But have you ever seen one or even heard of such a thing? Does the market where you shop have them? My guess is, No.


So I looked it up.


Loquat: 1 a small evergreen tree (Eriobotrya japonica) of the rose family, native to China and Japan 2 the small yellow, edible, plumlike fruit of this tree.


I feel much better now.


1 comment:

queenann said...

I first learned about loguat when I saw the fruit on a tree in the backyard of a very strange yet sweet old man in Berkeley. So I know they exist.