The pulp is soft and juicy, mainly divided into white and orange; It is called "white sand" (white loquat) and "red sand". Among them, white sand tastes sweet and the fruit shape is small; Red sand is sweet and sour, and the fruit is larger if cultivated. Each loquat fruit has five ovaries, one to five of which develop into brown seeds, while the artificially cultivated seedless varieties have no seeds.
Loquat is different from most fruit trees in that it blooms in autumn or early winter, scattered in Leng Xiang, and its fruit matures from spring to early summer, earlier than other fruits. Therefore, Qinghe called loquat "the only one prepared for the four seasons" in his book "Flower Mirror". Loquat has white or light yellow flowers, five petals, about 2 cm in diameter, and five to ten flowers in bundles, which can be used as honey source crops.
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Loquat can bear fruit normally in the place where the annual average temperature is above 15℃, can grow in the area where the annual average temperature is above 12℃, and has strong cold resistance, which can be resisted by adult trees? Can flowers resist the low temperature of 18 degrees? The temperature is 4 degrees, the flowering period is long, and the possibility of freezing injury is small. In addition, loquat has low requirements on soil and sunshine, and is planted all over China, south of Huaihe River.
Besides China, loquat is cultivated in Japan, the United States (Hawaii and California), India, Brazil, Israel, Turkey and Spain. Among them, the history of Japanese loquat cultivation was introduced from southern China at the end of Edo.
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