Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eriobotrya japonica
Common name
Loquat
Family
Rosaceae
Where found
Dry forest, urban bushland, roadsides, and along streams. Mainly Sydney area.. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Introduced tree to about 10 m high. Fruit juicy, edible. Branchlets densely rusty-hairy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 10–30 cm long, 30–90 mm wide, leathery, glossy above, rusty-hairy below, margins entire near the leaf bases, coarsely toothed otherwise. Flowers fragrant, white, about 10 mm in diameter, with 5 petals. Flowers in dense, many-flowered branched clusters to about 20 cm long. Flowers winter–spring. Fruit yellow or orange-yellow, round to oval, 3–4 cm long.
Family was Malaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eriobotrya~japonica (accessed 14 January, 2021)
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