Elaeagnus multifloraThunb.

cherry silverberry

WFO wfo-0000663857 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Elaeagnus multiflora, photographed by Yoshihiro Tokue
fig. a Yoshihiro Tokue, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-08-31 / obs. 24059601
Elaeagnus multiflora, photographed by Yoshihiro Tokue
fig. b Yoshihiro Tokue, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 24059606
Elaeagnus multiflora, photographed by Yoshihiro Tokue
fig. c Yoshihiro Tokue, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 24059610
Elaeagnus multiflora, photographed by Yoshihiro Tokue
fig. d Yoshihiro Tokue, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 24059616

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Elaeagnus multiflora is native: China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Korea, Kuril Is. China North-CentralChina South-CentralChina SoutheastJapan Korea
Native distribution of Elaeagnus multiflora, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China South-Central CHC
China Southeast CHS
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Kuril Is. KUR

Not drawn on the map: Kuril Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 32 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Elaeagnus edulis Siebold ex E.May
  • Elaeagnus edulis Siebold ex Carrière
  • Elaeagnus isensis Makino
  • Elaeagnus jucundicocca Koidz.
  • Elaeagnus kiusiana Nakai
  • Elaeagnus longipes A.Gray
  • Elaeagnus longipes f. elliptica Araki
  • Elaeagnus longipes f. pacifica Araki
  • Elaeagnus longipes var. angustifolia Nakai
  • Elaeagnus longipes var. multflora (Thunb.) Maxim.
  • Elaeagnus longipes var. orbiculata (Makino) Honda
  • Elaeagnus longipes var. ovoidea (Makino) Honda
  • Elaeagnus longipes var. sulcata (Makino) Honda
  • Elaeagnus multiflora f. jucundicocca (Koidz.) Araki
  • Elaeagnus multiflora f. oblongata Araki
  • Elaeagnus multiflora f. orbiculata (Makino) Araki
  • Elaeagnus multiflora var. angustifolia (Nakai) Makino & Nemoto
  • Elaeagnus multiflora var. edulis (Siebold ex Carrière) C.K.Schneid.
  • Elaeagnus multiflora var. gigantea Araki
  • Elaeagnus multiflora var. multiflora
  • Elaeagnus multiflora var. obovoidea C.Y.Chang
  • Elaeagnus multiflora var. orbiculata Makino
  • Elaeagnus multiflora var. ovoidea Makino
  • Elaeagnus multiflora var. parvifolia Servett.

and 8 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.