Description: The loquat tree is originated from China and Japan, but its cultivation is very frequent in Portugal. This tree was planted in a vegetable garden shared by the neighborhood residents. In this garden other different species were cultivated for people’s own use and to be commercialized such as potatoes, onions, cassava, sugar cane, beans, and corn.
Provided by: Benvindo Moreira, a Cape Verde-born Portuguese.
Present Location: Vitoria Garden Collection (it was transplanted from Quinta da Vitoria neighborhood in March 2014)
Last revision date: March 2016
(I) Numbering in accordance with the archive of trees and plants identified in the Quinta da Vitoria 2012 and 2013.
(II) Mabberley, David J. Mabberley´s Plant-Book: A Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classifications and Uses. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
(*)Testimonies of residents gathered in a set of recorded conversations in the neighborhood of Quinta da Vitória and after the demolition in Lisbon, Loures and London between July 2012 and October 2014.
