Eriobotrya japonica
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Description
Small trees.
Leaves more or less crowded at twig ends, oblong to lanceolate, 12-28 by 3.5-8 cm, margin shordy dentate in upper part, coriaceous, with 10-22 pairs of nerves, woolly above when very young but soon glabrate, densely woolly and tardily glabrescent below.
Stipules intrapetio-lar, cohering or connate into a 2-topped scale, up to 1 cm long.
Inflorescence a compound raceme, 15-20 cm long, peduncle short, pedicels very short.
Flowers rather large, very hairy.
Sepals persistent.
Petals long remaining, white.
Ovary inferior or almost so, the densely hairy top free from the hypanthium, 5-celled, styles (practically) free, hairy at base.
Fruits globular to ovoid, up to 8 cm diam. but usually (much) smaller, exocarp hairy, yellow to orange, mesocarp juicy, endocarps mem- branous.
Seeds 2 or 3, large, with firm, glabrous, brown testa.