Bountiful Bonsai by Richard W. Bender
Author:Richard W. Bender
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-4-8053-1270-4
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
The perfect shape of this limequat has been sacrificed to maximize fruit production. The seventy-six-inch specimen now has nearly a hundred green fruits just beginning to ripen. Purchased as a six-foot-tall tree, it has been in training for five years.
Six weeks after the picture at left was taken, most of the fruit on this limequat bonsai have turned ripe and are ready to use. Ripe citrus always makes a striking specimen.
A limequat cluster seen close up.
Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) Loquats are a member of the rose family native to China, with a small fruit similar to an apple. The fruits are eaten fresh, canned, and cooked into jams, wines, and desserts. Loquats are very popular and widely grown for their fruits in Asia. They have been introduced all over the world, and there are hundreds, if not thousands, of cultivars with wide variations in fruit shape and color. The fruits are one to two inches in diameter, growing in clusters; they turn yellow when ripe and have a central core of large seeds. The loquat has thick, dark-green leaves up to twelve inches long, with serrated edges and a rusty red hairiness on the underside that provides a striking contrast. The leaves form a whorled pinwheel at the branch tips, creating a unique appearance. The white flowers are quite fragrant, with a sweet smell. I trained a fetching specimen for six years and finally sold it to a client before it ever fruited for me. A loquat is best cultivated as a larger bonsai specimen because of the large leaves, and may need several years of pruning to fill out a crown. There is a variegated loquat grown indoors as an ornamental variety in some areas. Loquats grow slowly, but are drought tolerant and adapt to many different climates and soil types without problems.
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