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Nisperos coming from CALLOSA D’EN SARRIÀ (ALICANTE) are also known scientifically as Eriobotrya japónica which is a tree pertaining to the rosebush family, always green and very productive whose remote origin is located in China and Japan. Nisperos are bony – fruits that ripen the earliest.
Its thin skin is at the same time resistant and can be easily pealed. Nisperos ripen announcing the incoming spring. For more than one thousand years ago it has been used as an ornamental tree in China Japan and India, not being growed as a crop- area until 1800. Jesuits took them to the Mauritius Islands; and from here they were first taken to France in 1784 and then to Italy in 1812. They were then introduced in Spain when a merchant seaman named Captain Roig brought them to Sagunto’s harbour and spread them throughout the eastern and south – eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula. Nispero best grows in the Mediterranean Basin due to the goodness of its climate, and particularily in the Marina Baixa Area in the town of CALLOSA D’EN SARRIÁ (Alicante / Spain).
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