Eriobotrya japonica (Common names)

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Names in common use

• English: loquat, Japanese medlar; Japanese plum, Chinese plum
• German: japanische Mispel
• Dutch: japanse mispel, loquat
• Swedish: Japansk mispel
• Danish:
• Norwegian: Japansk mispel
• Icelandic:
  

• French: bibacier, bibassier, néflier du Japon / bibace, bibasse, nèfle du Japon, nèfle
• Italian: nespolo del Giappone / nespola del Giappone
• Spanish: níspero, níspero del Japón, nisperero del Japón
• Catalan: nesprer japonès / nespra, nespre
• Portuguese: nespereira do Japão / nêspera; ameixa-amarela (Brazil)
• Romanian: moșmon japonez
  

• Russian: мушмула японская - mušmula japonskaja
• Polish: nieśplik japoński, miszpelnik japoński
• Czech:
• Slovak:
• Bulgarian:
• Croatian: japanska mušmula, nešpola
• Serb:
• Slovenian:
• Macedonian:
  

• Latvian:
• Lithuanian: lokva
• Albanian: mushmullë e verës, mushmollë e verës
• Greek: μουσμουλιά, μεσκουλιά / μούσμουλο - mousmoulia, meskoulia / mousmoulo
• Turkish: Malta eriği, muşmula, yeni dünya
• Maltese:
• Hungarian:
• Finnish: japaninmispeli
• Estonian:
  

Sources and commentaries

For most people, this introduced species is now the true medlar, and has taken the name of the European medlar (Mespilus germanica), which is rarely marketed.