#loquat — Public Fediverse posts
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California Gardening: The Sweetest Fruit You Can’t Buy in Stores! 🍊 https://www.allforgardening.com/1754059/california-gardening-the-sweetest-fruit-you-cant-buy-in-stores-%f0%9f%8d%8a/ #BackyardOrchard #CaliforniaGardening #DwarfChristmasLoquat #EasyFruitTrees #FruitGardening #gardening #GrowYourOwnFood #HarvestingLoquats #loquat #LoquatTree #OrganicGardening #SouthernCaliforniaGardening #SpringHarvest #TropicalFruit #VLog
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California Gardening: The Sweetest Fruit You Can’t Buy in Stores! 🍊 https://www.allforgardening.com/1754059/california-gardening-the-sweetest-fruit-you-cant-buy-in-stores-%f0%9f%8d%8a/ #BackyardOrchard #CaliforniaGardening #DwarfChristmasLoquat #EasyFruitTrees #FruitGardening #gardening #GrowYourOwnFood #HarvestingLoquats #loquat #LoquatTree #OrganicGardening #SouthernCaliforniaGardening #SpringHarvest #TropicalFruit #VLog
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One of the talk shows that I listen to has recently brought up the topic of loquats because one of them just planted a tree, and none of the other people, co-hosts or guests, know what it is.
I'm very familiar with it because we had trees in the front and back yard when I was a kid, and the fruit was plentiful. Not too sweet, good texture on the skin and meat of the fruit. Fairly large seeds.
I feel like I don't ever see them in stores. #loquat #loquats #fruit
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Today's adventures in #food #preservation: 13 half-pint jars of #loquat #jam, eight with chardonnay and five with riesling. The former is what "chard" stands for on the labels. I am the first to admit that loquat jam with actual chard would be nasty.
Here's the thing about loquats, in case anyone's interested: they're a real pain in the ass. On the plus side, they're delicious, but on the minus side, they're very small, they have to be peeled, and each fruit is about 85% pit. It takes a looooong time to process enough to be useful for #canning. Lucky for me, my wife has seemingly endless patience for food-prep projects as long as she can watch either "Great British Baking Show" or "Outlander" while doing them. She's completely caught up on GBBS at this point, but she has two seasons of "Outlander" to go, which she's saving for the feijoas (aka pineapple guavas) that will be ripening in a month or so.
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Today's adventures in #food #preservation: 13 half-pint jars of #loquat #jam, eight with chardonnay and five with riesling. The former is what "chard" stands for on the labels. I am the first to admit that loquat jam with actual chard would be nasty.
Here's the thing about loquats, in case anyone's interested: they're a real pain in the ass. On the plus side, they're delicious, but on the minus side, they're very small, they have to be peeled, and each fruit is about 85% pit. It takes a looooong time to process enough to be useful for #canning. Lucky for me, my wife has seemingly endless patience for food-prep projects as long as she can watch either "Great British Baking Show" or "Outlander" while doing it. She's completely caught up on GBBS at this point, but she has two seasons of "Outlander" to go, which she's saving for the feijoas (aka pineapple guavas) that will be ripening in a month or so.
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Enhancing #loquat #fruit quality with methyl #jasmonate: A study on sugar #metabolism and #gene_expression dynamics.
#signalling #Eriobotrya #agriculture
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-loquat-fruit-quality-methyl-jasmonate.html
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Enhancing #loquat #fruit quality with methyl #jasmonate: A study on sugar #metabolism and #gene_expression dynamics.
#signalling #Eriobotrya #agriculture
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-loquat-fruit-quality-methyl-jasmonate.html
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And just to prove my tree is a loquat, here’s a picture of a ripe loquat and a seed from another loquat. I see more of them on the tree. I do not see apples on the tree. This is also not the first apple that fell in my yard.
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And just to prove my tree is a loquat, here’s a picture of a ripe loquat and a seed from another loquat. I see more of them on the tree. I do not see apples on the tree. This is also not the first apple that fell in my yard.
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A fruit fell from my loquat tree as I looked out over the yard this morning. In pyjamas, I walked over to pick it up and
What the hell it’s a tiny apple?
Just in case I’m bad at loquat identification I took it inside and cut it open.
It is an apple. What.
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A fruit fell from my loquat tree as I looked out over the yard this morning. In pyjamas, I walked over to pick it up and
What the hell it’s a tiny apple?
Just in case I’m bad at loquat identification I took it inside and cut it open.
It is an apple. What.
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If you live in San Francisco, you've probably seen loquat trees. They are, as the article says, hidden in plain sight. In my case, it was right in my own back yard. This is only my second summer living in this house, so it might not have fruited as much last year, and last summer I was too tired recovering from Covid to do enough gardening to notice much about the yard, even if it had some fruit.
Discovering that my house has a mature loquat tree is like finding out that there's been a treasure in the back of the closet that I assumed was an air filter or something.
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If you live in San Francisco, you've probably seen loquat trees. They are, as the article says, hidden in plain sight. In my case, it was right in my own back yard. This is only my second summer living in this house, so it might not have fruited as much last year, and last summer I was too tired recovering from Covid to do enough gardening to notice much about the yard, even if it had some fruit.
Discovering that my house has a mature loquat tree is like finding out that there's been a treasure in the back of the closet that I assumed was an air filter or something.
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Several mysteries of our yard suddenly clicked. Why did our magnolia never bloom if it was really a magnolia? Why did it seem to have these weird fruits on it? Where are all these weird unripe crab apples coming from if I can't see an apple tree anywhere nearby? Surely the squirrels are not *that* industrious?
I had been thinking the green unripe loquats were a different fruit (strange crab apples) than the ripe and mostly eaten by birds and squirrels by the time they fell ones.
This morning I tasted one of the partly animal-eaten fallen fruits. Tastes loquatish. Then I pried it open, and that confirmed it. That large seed, there's no mistaking it.
I bounced around in the misty yard telling all the squirrels that would listen "It's a loquat! It's a loquat!"
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Several mysteries of our yard suddenly clicked. Why did our magnolia never bloom if it was really a magnolia? Why did it seem to have these weird fruits on it? Where are all these weird unripe crab apples coming from if I can't see an apple tree anywhere nearby? Surely the squirrels are not *that* industrious?
I had been thinking the green unripe loquats were a different fruit (strange crab apples) than the ripe and mostly eaten by birds and squirrels by the time they fell ones.
This morning I tasted one of the partly animal-eaten fallen fruits. Tastes loquatish. Then I pried it open, and that confirmed it. That large seed, there's no mistaking it.
I bounced around in the misty yard telling all the squirrels that would listen "It's a loquat! It's a loquat!"
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The realization arrived yesteray, when walking by the community gardens over the canyon-like expanse of San Jose Avenue near the Highland Avenue Bridge, I found a fallen fruit on the ground, a kind of yellow plum. I picked it up and realized it was not a plum but this other fruit, whose name I couldn't remember, and when I had a bite I was sure, yes, it's that-other-fruit. This was not enough to convince Mr Dys to try a bite.
I looked up to figure out where that-other-fruit came from and saw a tree that looked a lot like a magnolia.
And it looked a lot like the "magnolia" in our back yard.
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The realization arrived yesteray, when walking by the community gardens over the canyon-like expanse of San Jose Avenue near the Highland Avenue Bridge, I found a fallen fruit on the ground, a kind of yellow plum. I picked it up and realized it was not a plum but this other fruit, whose name I couldn't remember, and when I had a bite I was sure, yes, it's that-other-fruit. This was not enough to convince Mr Dys to try a bite.
I looked up to figure out where that-other-fruit came from and saw a tree that looked a lot like a magnolia.
And it looked a lot like the "magnolia" in our back yard.
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It's a loquat! The huge shade tree in my backyard, which I couldn't identify and which other people said was a magnolia is definitely a loquat!
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It's a loquat! The huge shade tree in my backyard, which I couldn't identify and which other people said was a magnolia is definitely a loquat!
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Xu et al. report that #sorbitol, an important signaling molecule in #fruit #trees, induces #flower bud formation in #loquat and promotes the accumulation of hyperoside, an important #developmental #flavonoid.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13439
@wileyplantsci
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Talk about some *sweet* findings!
Xu et al. explore the molecular mechanism behind #sorbitol-induced flower bud formation via the MADS-box #TranscriptionFactor EjCAL in #loquat.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13439
@wileyplantsci
#JIPB #PlantScience #CropScience #tree #fruit #Rosaceae