Eriobotrya japonica Large Shrubs is a refined deciduous shrub

is a refined deciduous shrub from the cool mountain woodlands of Japan

where the plant also goes by the name Fukushu

Golden dewdrop

Dennis Werner at the JC Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh

crossvine was virtually unavailable from nurseries when Woodlanders began offering the plant in the early 1980s

Eriobotrya japonica Large Shrubs is a refined deciduous shrubThe loquat, Eriobotrya japonica, is a handsome broadleaved evergreen of the rose family, kin to apples, pears, and hawthorns, grown for the bold foliage and the early, unusual fruit. Native to the warm temperate hills of central China and cultivated in Japan for more than a thousand years, the loquat has traveled with settlers throughout the mild winter world, from the Mediterranean to the American South, where old dooryard trees are a familiar sight.