Eriobotrya japonica(Thunb.) Lindl.

Loquat

WFO wfo-0000986002 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Eriobotrya japonica, photographed by Thomas Mesaglio
fig. a Thomas Mesaglio, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-02 / obs. 193497646
Eriobotrya japonica, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. b Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195824435
Eriobotrya japonica, photographed by Nonbinary-Naturalist
fig. c Nonbinary-Naturalist, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190639975
Eriobotrya japonica, photographed by johnyochum
fig. d johnyochum, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192179621
Eriobotrya japonica, photographed by Josep Gesti
fig. e Josep Gesti, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 183712598
Eriobotrya japonica, photographed by Jacqueline Jeanne
fig. f Jacqueline Jeanne, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197597925
Eriobotrya japonica, photographed by er-birds
fig. g er-birds, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181710882
Eriobotrya japonica, photographed by Saryu Mae 前 朝琉
fig. h Saryu Mae 前 朝琉, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 175357964

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 375 observations

Peak flowering in Nov, from 375 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 8 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.

  • Crataegus bibas Lour.
  • Eriobotrya japonica f. variegata Anon.
  • Mespilus japonica Thunb.
  • Photinia japonica (Thunb.) Franch. & Sav.
  • Photinia japonica (Thunb.) Hemsl.
  • Pyrus bibas (Lour.) M.F.Fay & Christenh.
  • Rhaphiolepis bibas (Lour.) Galasso & Banfi
  • Rhaphiolepis loquata B.B.Liu & J.Wen

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.

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