It’s always useful to keep in mind that when we buy a certain variety of fruit tree we are the beneficiaries of clonal propagation; that is, the fruit we harvest is coming from canopy growth (called a ...

One of my favorite trees at the University grows right behind the herbarium. It’s been there for years (the building was constructed about 1974), and is now about 25’ tall. (I’m terrible at estimating ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Win Vaughn and Kaitlyn Henson try the berries on a loquat tree Georgia. Have you seen the trees around town that have large leaves ...

The loquat tree (Eriobotrya japonica) is flowering now and will continue blooming into February. Its tasty yellow or orange fruit are borne January to April, barring a hard freeze. Loquat trees — aka ...

As the temperatures started to warm up here in Charleston last month, there was one tree that began to stick out as I wandered around the downtown streets, a slightly tropical-looking tree that is ...

The loquat tree was once known as Japanese plum tree, but since it’s native to China and isn’t a plum, good riddance to that name. The loquat is a fairly fast-growing evergreen species (Eriobotrya ...

Have you seen the trees around town that have large leaves similar to a magnolia and have clusters of large yellow berries? Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) is the name, and the yellow berries are ...