Eurya japonicaThunb.

East Asian euryaEurya

WFO wfo-0000683065 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Eurya japonica, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. a Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-03-25 / obs. 117573107
Eurya japonica, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. b Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 116719812
Eurya japonica, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. c Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107334854
Eurya japonica, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. d Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 107334951
Eurya japonica, photographed by Takaaki Hattori
fig. e Takaaki Hattori, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 106610671
Eurya japonica, photographed by Yoshihiro Tokue
fig. f Yoshihiro Tokue, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29829512
Eurya japonica, photographed by Yoshihiro Tokue
fig. g Yoshihiro Tokue, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 24059509
Eurya japonica, photographed by harum.koh
fig. h harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 14217064

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Eurya japonica is native: China Southeast, Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Vietnam China SoutheastJapanVietnam KoreaNansei-shoto
Native distribution of Eurya japonica, 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 Southeast CHS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Nansei-shoto NNS
Vietnam VIE ASIA-TROPICAL

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 35 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.

  • Eurya crispa Siebold ex Blume
  • Eurya fasciculata Wall.
  • Eurya hortensis Siebold & Zucc.
  • Eurya jacquemartii Carrière
  • Eurya japonica f. angustifolia (Koidz.) H.Hara
  • Eurya japonica f. australis (Hatus.) Hatus.
  • Eurya japonica f. integra (Nakai) T.B.Lee
  • Eurya japonica f. leucobaccata H.Hara
  • Eurya japonica f. linearifolia (Blume) H.Hara
  • Eurya japonica f. microphylla (Blume) H.Hara
  • Eurya japonica f. papillosa Sugim.
  • Eurya japonica var. angustifolia Koidz.
  • Eurya japonica var. australis Hatus.
  • Eurya japonica var. hortensis Blume
  • Eurya japonica var. integra Nakai
  • Eurya japonica var. linearifolia Blume
  • Eurya japonica var. microphylla Blume
  • Eurya japonica var. montana Blume
  • Eurya japonica var. multiflora Miq.
  • Eurya japonica var. normalis Kuntze
  • Eurya japonica var. ovata Masam. & Satomi
  • Eurya japonica var. pumila Miq.
  • Eurya japonica var. pusilla Blume
  • Eurya japonica var. uniflora Blume

and 11 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.

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