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Standing five to six feet tall, the Yu tree bears fruit roughly the size of a plum, red and delightfully sweet.
Note: Its blossoms are a searing crimson. To record only the fruit and ignore the bloom completely ruins the beauty of it all!
Native to the Shu region, the Lu orange is often mistaken for a common orange, though it is neither a true mandarin nor a pomelo. It possesses a lovely, lingering fragrance. Uniquely, it blooms and bears fruit in both winter and summer. These fruits range from the size of a pellet to a fist and remain edible year-round. It is also known as the loquat.
Note: Oh, so it is just the loquat. The flowers are piteously small, hardly worth a look.
According to the Southern Records, the Chu fruit resembles a plum, blossoming in the second month and ripening by the seventh or eighth. In its native Jiaozhi, locals preserve it in salt for a sharp, spicy flavor.
Note: It masquerades as a bayberry but is actually a medicinal herb, and yet there is not a single word about its flowers. How utterly dull!
This book only records the flora of the north and southeast, leaving the vast northwest completely blank. I have heard whispers of the immortal desert poplars out there; it seems I must go and see them for myself.
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