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The listing, Loquat Seeds - Japanese Plum Trees has ended.
Up for auction is 6 loquat seeds. I've also heard these called Japanese Plums. They are sweet yellow fruit, and the trees have large dark green waxy leaves.
I have several trees and the one these seeds are from produces consistently huge fruit. Normally loquats are pretty small. The ones on this tree average the size of golf balls. (See last picture - that's a quarter!)
These are pretty easy to grow, and they are evergreen. (At least here in Zone 8.) Another lister notes that these take 5 years to mature and will tolerate almost any soil. The trees are delicate or thin (but strong) and could probably do well in a planter. It does freeze here and none of my trees seem to notice.
It depends on what growing zone you're in. (Colorado has several - you can look yours up here: http://www.garden.org/zipzone/ )
These are said to grow best in Zones 8, 9 and 10. That 's pretty warm. That being said, they are pretty thin trees, so you could try container planting them. (So you can bring them in when it freezes. Mine survived a pretty long hard freeze last winter, (several weeks in the 20's) but we don't get snow here.