Longzhong has hills on three sides with lots of trees including pinaster, cypress, sweet-scented somanthus and loquats. |
Growing up in Kenya, my brother and I often shared the branches with a chameleon as we reached for the juicy, yellow loquats, keeping our eyes open for snakes. |
The air is full of the heady scent of loquats, and tiny cyclamen are popping up under trees and in sheltered places. |
Buyers would come to purchase our olives, citrus, loquats, avocados, guava and almonds, straight from the fields. |
The 13 kinds of fruit are sugar apples, pineapples, papayas, star fruits, mangoes, guavas, bell fruits, grapefruits, coconuts, loquats, plums, peaches and persimmons. |
There was the taboo that people were not supposed to harvest wild loquats because if they did so it was taboo. |