Eriobotrya japonica

Loquat

Family: Rosaceae · Type: tree · Not Native

Loquat is a naturalized tree found in the San Francisco Bay Area in urban areas and gardens. Flowering with white, oblong to obovate petals 8 to 10 millimeters long, this tree produces delicate blossoms. Growing to a small size with lance-oblong leaves 15 to 20 centimeters long, tomentose on the underside and glabrous above, with the distal half serrated and acute at the tip. Its leaves have a distinctive texture, being woolly beneath and smooth on top, with toothed edges toward the leaf tip. The fruit is pale orange-yellow, approximately 2 to 3 centimeters in diameter, spherical, and covered in fine hairs with sweet flesh containing 3 to 5 shiny black, ovoid seeds.

Habitat: Urban areas, gardens

Bioregions: SnFrB

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