3340.000 Eriobotrya Lindl.

Bailey, L.H. (1949) Manual of Cultivated Plants Revised edition. Macmillan, New York.

Description of the genus

Evergreen shrubs and small trees. Leaves large, alternate, strongly veined. Flowers white, in terminal panicles. Calyx lobes 5, persistent at apex of fruit. Petals 5, long-clawed. Ovary inferior. Ovules 2 per loculus. Fruit a pome with 1, 2 or few large seeds.

Derivation of name: from Greek: erion meaning wool and botrys, a bunch of grapes, alluding to the woolly inflorescences.

Worldwide: 26 species from Himalayas to E Asia to W Malesia.

Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon.

No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species

Links to cultivated taxa View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

Species	Content
japonica (Thunb.) Lindl.	Description, Image

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Eriobotrya
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