Loquat
Eriobotrya japonica
MediumSecondary
Production
A mild-climate fruit tree that flowers through winter and ripens early, giving you a harvest before almost anything else. Frost during bloom wipes out the crop, so it wants a sheltered spot.
Tolerances & traits
- Strata
- Medium
- Lifecycle
- Secondary
- Soil preference
- Loam, Sandy
- Soil pH range
- 6 – 8
- Min. temperature
- -10°C
- Min. rainfall
- 600 mm/year
- Wind tolerance
- Medium
- Frost tolerance
- Medium
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Irrigation needed
- Medium
How to manage it
Evergreen fruit tree that tolerates part shade; thin fruit and prune after harvest to keep size manageable.
Watch out for
Flowers in autumn/winter, so hard frost below about -4°C destroys the fruit crop; established wood tolerates colder snaps but won't fruit. Susceptible to fireblight.
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