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Eriobotrya japonica
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Family:
ROSACEAE
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Citation: Eriobotrya japonica (Thunb.) Lindl., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 13: 102. 1821; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 372. 1878; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 446(316). 1919; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 344. 2009.
Mespilus japonica Thunb., Fl. Jap. 206. 1784.
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Malayalam Name(s):
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Loquat, Chinese medlar, Japanese medlar
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Description:
Trees up to 8 m high; primary stems erect; secondary stems spreading; young stems stout, white-tomentose; older stems with prominent leaf scars, becoming greyish brown and transversely calloused. Leaves crowded near branch tips, 15-30 x 5-10 cm, oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, acute, tapering to cuneate or slightly auriculate base, very coriaceous, ± rugose, dark green and glossy above, thinly grey- or brown-tomentose below, serrate at least in upper 1/2 (sometimes obscurely); petiole c. 1.5 cm long, stout; stipules long-triangular, ± attenuate, pilose. Inflorescence of many flowers; 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 x 3-4 mm, shallowly emarginate. Fruit pyriform to broadly ellipsoid-oblong or subglobose, up to 5 x 3.5 cm; yellow, more or less tomentose; flesh sweet.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
September-January
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District(s):
Idukki, Thrissur, Palakkad, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Cultivated in the High Ranges
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Distribution:
China and Japan
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
White
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
Yes
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Mannavan shola
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