Loquat; Japanese Plum; Japanese Medlar
Eriobotrya japonica · Rosaceae · 비파나무
How to spot it
Wrinkled toothed leaves 15 to 23 cm long and hairy twigs and buds.
Look
- Leaves
- Wrinkled, leathery dark green leaves, large at 15 to 23 cm long and 7.5 to 10 cm wide, with coarse teeth; twigs, buds and leaves are densely hairy.
- Flowers
- Fragrant white to pale pink five-petaled flowers (1.3 to 2 cm across) cluster in terminal panicles 7.5 to 15 cm long.
- Fruit
- Pear-shaped fleshy fruit 2.5 to 5 cm long ripens yellow-orange with large seeds inside; the flesh is edible.
- Bark
- Rough-textured bark.
Where it grows
- Native to
- China and Japan.
- Ecology
- The flowers attract hummingbirds and bees.