notbob wrote:

> I don't know if loquats would qualify as an exotic fruit, at least not
> in CA, where they were not uncommon. As kids, we knew where every
> loquat tree in the neighborhood was and it was stripped of all its
> juicy fruit a soon as it was edible. In fact, kumquats were more
> exotic, to me. About the time I ran across my first kumquat, in the
> old Berkeley Co-op, I was in my mid-thirties, married, and picking
> loquats off a neighbor's tree I'd just discovered about a block from
> our apartment.

Loquats grow here fairly easily (though I bet if I planted a loquat tree it
would die. I'm good like that.) But you never see loquats in a store because
they're fragile and they have a very short shelf life. That's why I thought
the OP might consider them exotic.

Bob