Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl.
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Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl.
Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl.
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Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl.
Tree up to 8 m high when mature; trunk well developed; primary stems erect; secondary stems spreading; young stems stout, white-tomentose; older stems with prominent lf scars, becoming greyish brown and transversely calloused. Lvs near branch tips; petiole c. 15 mm long, stout; blade oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 150-350-(400) × 75-100-(130) mm, acute, tapering to cuneate or slightly auriculate base, very coriaceous, ± rugose, dark green and glossy above, thinly grey- or brown-tomentose below (very young lvs completely brown-tomentose), serrate at least in upper 1/2 (sometimes obscurely); stipules long-triangular, ± attenuate, pilose. Infl. of many fls; pedicels 5-8 mm long, brownish tomentose. Sepals fused for most of length; lobes 2-4 mm long, brown-tomentose. Petals white or ivory, oblong, c. 7-8 × 3-4 mm, shallowly emarginate. Fr. pyriform to broadly ellipsoid-oblong or subglobose, up to 50 × 35 mm; skin yellow, ± tomentose; flesh sweet.
Taxonomic concepts
Crataegus bibas Lour.
Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl.
Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl.
Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl.
Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl.
Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl.
Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl.
Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl.
Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl.
Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl.
Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl.
Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl.
Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl.
Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl.
Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl.
Mespilus japonica Thunb.
Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl.
Rhaphiolepis bibas (Lour.) Galasso & Banfi
Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl.
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1 January 2000
26 October 2024