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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Elaeagnus multiflora''
| image =
| image_width = 240px
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Rosales]]
| familia = [[Elaeagnaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Elaeagnus]]''
| species = '''''E. multiflora'''''
| binomial = ''Elaeagnus multiflora''
| binomial_authority = [[Carl Peter Thunberg|Thunb.]]
}}
'''''Elaeagnus multiflora''''' ('''Goumi''', '''Gumi''', '''Natsugumi''', or '''Cherry Silverberry'''), is a species of ''[[Elaeagnus]]'', native to [[China]], [[Korea]] and [[Japan]].
It is a [[deciduous]] or [[evergreen|semi-evergreen]] [[shrub]] or small [[tree]] growing to 2-8 m tall, with a trunk up to 30 cm diameter with dark brown [[bark]]. The shoots are densely covered in minute red-brown scales. The [[leaf|leaves]] are ovate to elliptic, 3-10 cm long and 2-5 cm broad, green above, and silvery to orange-brown below with dense small scales.
The [[flower]]s are solitary or in pairs in the leaf axils, fragrant, with a four-lobed pale yellowish-white 1.5 cm long corolla; flowering is in mid spring. The [[fruit]] is round to oval [[drupe]] 1 cm long, silvery-scaled orange, ripening red dotted with silver or brown, pendulous on a 2-3 cm peduncle. When ripe in mid to late summer, the fruit is juicy and edible, with an acidic taste.
Chinese people have traditionally considered them to be among a group of "[[nutraceutical]]s", or foods that are edible and have medicinal values. They are said to decrease cholesterol and have other benefits, but western scientific evidence has yet to confirm this belief {{Fact|date=February 2007}}.
It is occasionally grown in [[Europe]] and [[North America]] as an [[ornamental plant]] and for its fruit. It is [[naturalisation (biology)|naturalised]] in parts of the eastern [[United States]] [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ELMU].
==References==
*[http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?14925 Germplasm Resources Information Network: ''Elaeagnus multiflora'']
*[http://www005.upp.so-net.ne.jp/goostake/GOO/XNATUGUM.HTM Japan Tree Encyclopaedia: Natsugumi (''Elaeagnus multiflora'')]
*[http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Elaeagnus+multiflora Plants for a Future: ''Elaeagnus multiflora'']
[[Category:Elaeagnaceae]]
{{Rosales-stub}}
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Elaeagnus multiflora''
| image =
| image_width = 240px
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Rosales]]
| familia = [[Elaeagnaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Elaeagnus]]''
| species = '''''E. multiflora'''''
| binomial = ''Elaeagnus multiflora''
| binomial_authority = [[Carl Peter Thunberg|Thunb.]]
}}
'''''Elaeagnus multiflora''''' ('''Goumi''', '''Gumi''', '''Natsugumi''', or '''Cherry Silverberry'''), is a species of ''[[Elaeagnus]]'', native to [[China]], [[Korea]] and [[Japan]].
It is a [[deciduous]] or [[evergreen|semi-evergreen]] [[shrub]] or small [[tree]] growing to 2-8 m tall, with a trunk up to 30 cm diameter with dark brown [[bark]]. The shoots are densely covered in minute red-brown scales. The [[leaf|leaves]] are ovate to elliptic, 3-10 cm long and 2-5 cm broad, green above, and silvery to orange-brown below with dense small scales.
The [[flower]]s are solitary or in pairs in the leaf axils, fragrant, with a four-lobed pale yellowish-white 1.5 cm long corolla; flowering is in mid spring. The [[fruit]] is round to oval [[drupe]] 1 cm long, silvery-scaled orange, ripening red dotted with silver or brown, pendulous on a 2-3 cm peduncle. When ripe in mid to late summer, the fruit is juicy and edible, with an acidic taste.
Chinese people have traditionally considered them to be among a group of "[[nutraceutical]]s", or foods that are edible and have medicinal values. They are said to decrease cholesterol and have other benefits, but western scientific evidence has yet to confirm this belief {{Fact|date=February 2007}}.
It is occasionally grown in [[Europe]] and [[North America]] as an [[ornamental plant]] and for its fruit. It is [[naturalisation (biology)|naturalised]] in parts of the eastern [[United States]] [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=ELMU].
==References==
*[http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?14925 Germplasm Resources Information Network: ''Elaeagnus multiflora'']
*[http://www005.upp.so-net.ne.jp/goostake/GOO/XNATUGUM.HTM Japan Tree Encyclopaedia: Natsugumi (''Elaeagnus multiflora'')]
*[http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Elaeagnus+multiflora Plants for a Future: ''Elaeagnus multiflora'']
[[Category:Elaeagnaceae]]
{{Rosales-stub}}
