This is loquat and sugar cane season. I know because my car is always covered with ash from the burning cane fields. Ash floats many miles.
What is a loquat – there are trees with fruit around CV. Also called May Apple, Japanese medlar or Japanese plum.
The loquats are tartly sweet, aromatic 1-1/2" golden-yellow to orange fruit that resembles an apricot in size and color. The juicy, crisp flesh is pale yellow and has a delicate, sweetly tart cherry-like or pear-like flavor, it surrounds 1 to 3 seeds. The yellow fleshy edible fruits are eaten raw, cooked, or made into jelly. These fruits are favorites among Asian cultures. Remove the fruit flesh from the seed before eating or cooking.
Warning! Do not eat, chew, or swallow the seeds. The loquat seed may be highly toxic. http://www.loquatworld.com/
3 comments:
Hi Elaine,
It is my understanding that the principal effect of eating the seeds is that one becomes; Loquatious!!!
Dave
Dave you will be getting an offer to write for the Daily Show. I was going to try a medlar - meddler pun but pffttt!
Hi all,
As you might imagine, if there is a "Loquat", there must be a "Hiquat" and indeed there is:
The Environmental Health Protection Agency defines Project "Hiquat" as the:
"Gathering (of) baseline information in the field in advance of program implementation to
identify local priority environmental conditions related to diarrheal disease prevention
and to evaluate impact on behaviors related to diarrheal disease in children under five—
now being refined".
Now the question must be asked; is there a "Demiquat"?
Dave Israel
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