My bro is having a grand old time in an extended Calabria vacation. He sent me pictures of a fig tree loaded with brebas which I posted here a few weeks ago. Now he teases me with more photos, albeit not of figs.
Anyone ever hear or taste a fruit called nespole? White mulberrries? Yum-de-do!

The picture of the lamb (capretto/agnello) was bittersweet...or should I say sweet and tasty?

BTW, he tells me that he is oiling a few of the brebas, so that he and his wife can have a taste before it is time to return home.

I hate him.

"Nespole" are very popular in southern Italy. They are LOQUAT.

one of my friends has a house in the south of Italy. He has a tree with red ones on.
there so sweet only problem is you look like you have murdered someone after collecting them. I wanted to take a cutting but I read they don't propergate to well.

Get some seeds very easy to grow i grow them ever year and give them away but sorry im in Austraila.

Oh, man, those cherries are gorgeous. Wish we could grow ones like them in my part of the world.

Sal, there is definitely much confusion of what a Nespolo really is.  
Nespolo del Giappone (Japanese Nespolo) is indeed a loqaut. It is also known as Eriobotrya japonica.

The Nespolo my brother is showing in the 4rth picture (along with red and yellow cherries) is actually a type of large medlar ( Mespilus germanicus ). Do not try eating one of these until it is totally 100% ripe or your mouth will turn inside out. It is very, very astringent before it ripens. 


The white mulberries shown in the first picture taste totally different than the red or purple ones, in my opinion. They are sweet and fragrant without a hint of acidity. I have both red and white in the form of very huge trees on my property and enjoy grazing from one to the other and then back again.

Nespole can be a generic term--like sapote.

Medlars aren't like persimmons.  They have to be bletted, which is a kind of fermentation/rotting in hay, before they are edible.