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« on: April 28, 2017, 03:11:52 PM »
I have a little experience with the Oliver and Champagne loquat. Unfortunately, I lost the Oliver in a flood a while ago, but I thought it was excellent when I had it. You can see a couple of pictures of the Oliver I posted a while ago, the color was a dark orange, sweet, productive and I thought the flavor was rich and apricot like. I was very happy with the Oliver tree and was sad when I lost it, the only downside I can think of was that the fruit wasn’t large. I got a Champagne loquat to replace the Oliver and haven’t been nearly impressed and have recently dug it up. The Champagne does fruit by itself but not heavily and the fruit has a lot more acidity then I like unless it’s absolutely dead ripe. Even though the fruit is very good when it’s dead ripe with a complex flavor, you have to wait until it becomes soft and wrinkled, at that point the fruit usually cracks and is quite small. I now have an Avril to replace the Champagne but haven’t tasted it yet.