Greenloquat is characterized by its sweet taste, rich juice, thin skin, and smallseed. The name is attributed to the still green color at its stem when thefruit is already ripe. It blossoms in winter, and its fruits ripen in the lasthalf of May next year. Hence the saying: ¡°Buds in autumn, blossoms in winter,mellows in spring, ripens in summer, and absorbs energy from all the fourseasons¡±