Haiku 143
Small furry green balls
Sprouting like an alien
Weird and wonderful
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The funny looking loquat, Eriobotrya japonica, starts to blossom in April, just before our winter sets in.
My poor old tree is very old and has lost quite a few branches, yet still soldiers on.
Always the first to start growing, long before spring, the white flowers soon turn to tiny brown lumps and then to furry green balls.
Sparky the squirrel loves this fruit, when it is ripe and peach-coloured. He has a few weeks to wait yet.
I will see him most mornings running his little route across the tops of fences and along branches.
Selecting his chosen loquat, he then returns carrying it in his mouth and sits in a suitable spot to eat it.
Yum!
Loquats are yummy! 😃
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haha You are one of the few readers who know what they are! 😀
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Asians know how yummy loquats are. It is like a peach and has cooling properties for sore throats!
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I did not know this! 😀
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A wonderful banquet for Sparky and they do look a little alien!🙂 We have a walnut tree close to the house that the squirrels love and some days I think they enjoy dropping them close to my head instead of eating them.😁
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Thank you 🙂
Gosh! But, yes, I can so see those squirrels aiming walnuts at you! 😀
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😁
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I’ve never seen this tree before. How do those fruits taste?
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They are a little sour and I don’t eat them myself, but the animals and birds in my garden love them. 🙂
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That is an interesting tree. Glad to know Sparky loves this fruit. 🙂
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Thank you 😀
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What an interesting fruit tree this is. Despite being old, the leaves and fruit it still bears look very healthy.
How nice for Sparky that he has his own private supply of fresh loquat Except, of course, for the others is his clan and perhaps some birds! ☺️
Do you and your husband eat the loquat, or is it an acquired taste?
You have some fascinating plant life in your corner of the world, and especially in your garden!
🐾Ginger 🐾
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It amazes me that it is still alive and producing fruit. 😀
There is always plenty to go around, so the birds and Sparkys share. 🙂
I don’t like loquats myself – but I don’t like apricots either! LM used to eat them happily! 🙂
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My Ani would see this as a tennis ball tree… she even pinches my unripe strawberries in the garden and throws the green fruit around like balls. Obsessed 😉
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haha So cute! 😀
Little Monkey would eat the loquats – and then have to go out at midnight!! 😀
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Ani likes to request garden access at midnight too…but I think that is just to patrol the boundaries in case of stray cows and hedgehogs 😉
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Oh my goodness! haha 😀
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😀
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