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You might not even know its name, but this mysterious orange fruit can be found growing on trees all over Houston. To help you identify loquats as you start noticing them all over the ground, we've ...

Loquats recall an era when they — not avocados or oranges — were the marquee crop, a sign that Southern California was a subtropical paradise. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times) My wife and I sped ...

My son remembers climbing Grandma’s backyard fence to pick the loquats from a heavily laden branch of the neighbor’s tree. Meyerland florist Sallie McKnight had planted that tree in her backyard, and ...

The woman in the dressing room at Talbots was adamant: Southerners make jelly from loquats. "That's all." At least she knew what I was talking about. Although the lovely, evergreen loquat tree is ...

A loquat tree grew in the garden of Nicole Routhier's childhood home in southern France. Her mother used to eat the juicy, apricot-colored fruit straight from the tree. When Routhier, author of Nicole ...

Loquat season has arrived, and the bounty is ripe for harvesting by the homeowners fortunate enough to own a tree or two — and the shifty neighbors eager to steal a couple quarts. If you don’t know ...

There are trees scattered about town with branches sagging, heavy from the weight of hundreds of golden yellow orbs. Some may think of them as pretty little decorations, but they’re actually tasty ...

On a recent warm May day, bundles of small sun-kissed-colored fruit droop from a towering tree in Raffy Espiritu’s backyard in Milpitas. They soak in the light and ripen in the heat before suddenly ...

My son remembers climbing Grandma’s backyard fence to pick the loquats from a heavily laden branch of the neighbor’s tree. The neighbor planted the tree when I was a youngster, and I had watched it ...

SAN JOSE — On a recent warm May day, bundles of small sun-kissed-colored fruit droop from a towering tree in Raffy Espiritu’s backyard in Milpitas. They soak in the light and ripen in the heat before ...