LOQUAT

lōˈkwŏt, small ornamental evergreen tree (Eriobotrya japonica) and its fruit. It belongs to the family Rosaceae (rose family) and is probably indigenous to China. It has been grown from antiquity in Japan and N India and is cultivated also in Indochina, the Mediterranean region, and to some extent in the New World subtropics. The yellowish, oval fruits are borne in clusters and taste somewhat like apples or pears but are slightly tart. They are commonly eaten fresh but are used also for making jam, jelly, pie, and sauces. Sometimes the loquat is called Japanese medlar, probably because it somewhat resembles the medlar of Europe and Asia. The loquat is one of the few important fruit trees of the tropics belonging to the rose family. Loquat is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Rosales, family Rosaceae.

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books on: Loquat  - 62 results

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Joyce's Iritis and the Irritated Text: The Dis-Lexic Ulysses
Book by Roy Gottfried; University Press of Florida, 1995
Subjects: Authors And Readers--History--20th Century, Intertextuality, Iritis--Patients--Biography, Joyce, James--1882-1941--Health, Joyce, James--1882-1941--Ulysses--Criticism, Textual, Novelists, Irish--20th Century--Biography, Reader-Response Criticism, Visual Literature--History And Criticism
...Rahat" as a proper name 12.562 and "loquat" 12.1004 . Their endings, with the...appears. Yet the association of the word "loquat" with Molly has no real semiotic sense...visual similarity of the first part of "loquat" to "loquacious." The magnified and...
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Economic Botany: A Textbook of Useful Plants and Plant Products
Book by Albert F. Hill; McGraw-Hill, 1952
Subjects: Botany, Economic
...A fruiting branch of the jujube Zizyphus Jujuba . Loquat The loquat Eriobotrya japonica is one of the few tropical fruits...into California, Florida, and the Gulf States. The loquat is a small evergreen tree with broad leaves and fragrant...
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Bermuda Holiday
Book by Mary Johnson Tweedy; Crown Publishers, 1950
Subjects: Bermuda Islands--Description And Travel--Guidebooks
...and others arrived in letters. Some plants, such as the loquat , came to the Islands quite by accident. This pretty evergreen...forced into St. Georges Harbor. Now it grows widely, and loquat preserves are a local delicacy. Gardens are carefully tended...
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Chinese Art Treasures: A Selected Group of Objects from the Chinese National Palace Museum and the Chinese National Central Museum, Taichung, Taiwan
Book by Chinese National Central Museum; Skira, 1961
Subjects: Art, Chinese--Exhibitions
24 MONKEYS IN A LOQUAT TREE Anonymous, eleventh century Sung dynasty Hanging scroll in ink...2 in. 165 x 107.9 em A monkey is swinging from the branch of a loquat or pi-pa tree Eriobotrya japonica while another sits on the trunk...
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Collected Writings of J. Thomas Rimer
Book by J.Thomas Rimer; Japan Library, 2004
Subjects: Japanese Literature--History And Criticism, Rimer, J. Thomas, Theater--Japan--History
...resonate with new force. Here, in one of his simple poems, Loquat (published in 1953), Nishiwaki has mixed extremely diverse...woman traveler With a birds eyes Peeling a fruit of the towering loquat Are unlimitedly white 6 A response to this kind of suggestive...
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journal articles on: Loquat  - 12 results

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The Kabuliwallah (the Fruitseller from Kabul)
Journal article by Rabindranath Tagore; International Journal of Humanities and Peace, Vol. 18, 2002
Subjects: Authors--Personal narratives, Blacklisting of authors, Fruit--Marketing, Loquat
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Latent Class Analysis of Complex Sample Survey Data: Application to Dietary Data
Journal article by Blossom H. Patterson, C. Mitchell Dayton, Barry I. Graubard; Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 97, 2002
Subjects: Cancer, Cancer prevention--Prevention, Cancer research, Cancer--Prevention, Cancer--Research, Diet--Health aspects, Diet--Research, Fruit, Fruits, Heart diseases--Health aspects, Heart diseases--Prevention, Loquat, Statistical methods, Statistics (Data)--Usage, Statistics--Usage, Vegetables--Health aspects
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The Effects of Peer Monitoring Training on the Emergence of the Capability to Learn from Observing Instruction Received by Peers
Journal article by Jo Ann Pereira Delgado, R. Douglas Greer; The Psychological Record, Vol. 59, 2009
Subjects: Columbia University, Instructional materials--Health aspects, Teachers--Health aspects, Teaching--Equipment and supplies, Teaching--Health aspects
...Stage 1 Post-Stage 2 Post-Stage 3 Cantaloupe Currants Loquat Fig Honey dew Plum Cherimoya Avocado 1 Plantain Mango Date Grapefruit...paw Kiwi Passion fruit Papaya Tamarind Apricot Fig Currants Loquat Cantaloupe Avocado Plum Cherimoya Honey dew 2 Grapefruit Mango...
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"Stories or History?":1 Female Counter Narratives in André Brink's Imaginings of Sand
Journal article by Shelley Dixon; AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association, 2004
Subjects: Brink, Andre, History, Literary criticism, Narratives, Writers
...it appears, somehow, less outrageous in its proportions than I have remembered it" (Brink, Imaginings 29) and the loquat tree seems "now somehow not quite as enormous as it seemed long ago" (Brink, Imaginings 27). Memories also provide solace...
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Poems by Atomic Bomb Survivors
Journal article by Kyoko Selden; Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 19, 1987
Subjects: Asia
...Shoji my boy Ohh Yasushi my boy Shoji my boy Shoji my boy. Yamada Kazuko ( Hiroshima no shi , August 1955) To the Lost When loquat blossoms bloom when peach blossoms in the peach mountain bloom when almonds are as big as the tip of the little finger my boys...
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magazine articles on: Loquat  - 13 results

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The Pasty-Faced Glaswegians May Yet Come to Have Sparkling Complexions
Magazine article by Bee Wilson; New Statesman, Vol. 132, March 17, 2003
Subjects: Education and state, Food preferences, Fried food, Fruit, Loquat
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Cardiovascular Benefits of Long-Term Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
Magazine article; FDA Consumer, Vol. 36, September 2002
Subjects: Cardiovascular diseases--Risk factors, Food habits, Fruit, Fruits, Loquat, Vegetables
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Unfinished Business: The Rehabilitation of Broccoli
Magazine article by John Elvin; Insight on the News, Vol. 18, October 1, 2002
Subjects: Fruit, Loquat, Medical policy--Management, Nutrition--Management, United States--Social policy, Vegetables
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Food: If You Have a Quince Tree to Hand This Is What You Do with It
Magazine article by Bee Wilson; New Statesman, Vol. 131, September 23, 2002
Subjects: Fruit--Usage, Loquat, Quince
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Edible Landscaping
Magazine article by William H. Roley Jr.; The Futurist, Vol. 27, March 1993
Subjects: Edible landscaping--Usage
...such as sapotes, mulberries, loquats, passion fruits, and guavas...In Southern California, loquats, strawberries, and figs ripen...Persimmon, strawberry tree, loquat, and pineapple guava are all...Prickly pear Lemon guava Sapote Loquat Strawberry guava Mulberry Natal...
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newspaper articles on: Loquat  - 16 results

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Autumn Fruits
Newspaper article; Daily Examiner (Grafton, Australia), March 21, 2009
...deciduous and there are some great tasty varieties available. Other unusual varieties of fruit trees include: wampee, sapote, loquat, guava, feijoa, olive, tamarillo also blueberries, boysenberries, raspberries, youngberries, strawberries and not forgetting...
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Colourful Gems
Newspaper article; Daily Examiner (Grafton, Australia), October 2, 2010
...avocados, mandarins, oranges, lemons, limes, peaches, apples, plums, apricots, peachcot, plumcots, eating fig, loquat, mango, guava, macadamias, almonds, kiwi fruit, grapes, tamarillo, olive, paw paw and berries. Also remember if you...
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Screen Idyll
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 13, 2006
...the garden is simple and effective. Two goblet-shaped apple trees are planted against the wall of the kitchen window; a loquat and vine provide more fruits. The raised beds are filled with aromatic planting of myrtle, purple sage, alliums and purple...
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Beauty Counter
Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), July 20, 2006
...third scent, In Control curious. The limited edition perfume is described as a "sweet and sexy fragrance, blending vanilla, loquat fruit, midnight orchid, creme brulee, sandalwood, musk and tonka crystals (a Venezuelan bean). Britney says she could...
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Health Notes Healthy Eating for Two
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), August 29, 2005
...try Crystal Spring Natural Detoxing Foodpads, little sachets of bamboo and tree extract laced with powdered tourmaline and loquat leaf. You stick them under your feet overnight, two at a time for a week, or alternate feet for 14 days (but be prepared...
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encyclopedia articles on: Loquat  - 2 results

 
 
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Loquat
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LOQUAT lo kwot, small ornamental evergreen tree...jelly, pie, and sauces. Sometimes the loquat is called Japanese medlar, probably because...resembles the medlar of Europe and Asia. The loquat is one of the few important fruit trees...
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Rose
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of enormous importance. It provides numerous temperate fruits including (besides species of Rubus and Prunus ) the apple , loquat , medlar , pear , quince , and strawberry . The typically fragrant and beautiful flowers make many members of the family prized...


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