Eriobotrya japonica Large Shrubs Growing six to eight feet

Growing six to eight feet tall and wide

Dennis Werner at the JC Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh

where the plant also goes by the name Fukushu

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

Eriobotrya japonica Large Shrubs Growing six to eight feetThe 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.