Eriobotrya japonica Large Shrubs Dennis Werner at the JC

Dennis Werner at the JC Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh

Golden dewdrop

'Splashy' is the painterly one

where the plant also goes by the name Fukushu

Eriobotrya japonica Large Shrubs Dennis Werner at the JCThe loquat, Eriobotrya japonica, is a handsome broadleaved evergreen of the rose family, kin to apples, pears, and hawthorns, grown for the bold foliage and the early, unusual fruit. Native to the warm temperate hills of central China and cultivated in Japan for more than a thousand years, the loquat has traveled with settlers throughout the mild winter world, from the Mediterranean to the American South, where old dooryard trees are a familiar sight.