Family Name | Rosaceae |
Scientific name | Eriobotrya japonica |
Common name | Loquat |
Growth habit | green arbor about 3–8 metres ,with a rounded crown, short trunk and woolly new twigs. |
Leaf | Simple alternative leaves, tough and leathery in texture with a serrated margin, and densely velvety-hairy below with thick yellow-brown pubescence. |
Flower | white, with five petals, produced in stiff panicles of three to ten flowers. have a sweet, heady aroma Flowering between September and November. |
Fruit | oval, rounded or pear-shaped, with a smooth or downy, yellow or orange, sometimes red-blushed skin. succulent, tangy, sweet to subacid or acidic matured from April to May. |
More to learn | Loquat loquat cut also is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, to chunks loquat dried medicine, Qingfei stomach heat function of lower gas phlegm, often "CHUANBEIPIBA cream made with other herbs. Loquat and other plants, seeds and leaves slightly with toxicity, raw release small amounts of cyanide, but because of its bitter taste, and generally do not eat enough to Damages Caused by the component. Often planted at the edge of the village, the ground or sloping. Often grafted varieties of sweet fruits and seeds of poor quality specimens. Mainly grown as an ornamental plant Fruit salad pie jams, jellies, chutneys, and often served as dessert poached wine |
Properties | Creatinine, cool, non-toxic, Moisten the lung, thirst, quencher, Extinguish the heat. |
Treats | Feiwei, soothe the digestive and respiratory systems, cough, hematemesis, Zaoke, vomit ,coughing ,spitting, febrile response. |
Reference | 景观植物百科 Loquat 枇杷 枇杷果的營養價值 |