Anyone here into loquat?

I just visited the Seattle International District tree again, and some of the fruit are starting to swell a bit, but not getting close to ripe yet:

Interestingly, it looks like the smaller tree on the alleyway behind the house (presumably a seedling of the main tree) had all its flowers/fruitlets killed by frost this winter, so it must be less hardy:

I am not sure if anyone has posted a photo of the branch structure under the canopy of the main tree, so here you go:

Someone gave it quite a prune job since last summer at some point, now the lowest branches are well out of reach from the sidewalk, you’d have to park a truck under it and climb on the roof to reach the lowest limbs now.

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