Editing Elaeagnus (section)

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants in the family Elaeagnaceae}}
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| image = Elaeagnus commutata USDA.jpg
| image_caption = American silverberry (''Elaeagnus commutata'')
| taxon = Elaeagnus
| authority = [[Joseph Pitton de Tournefort|Tourn.]] ex [[Carl Linnaeus|L.]]<ref name=POWO_30001965-2>{{cite web |title=''Elaeagnus'' Tourn. ex L. |work=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew|url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30001965-2 |access-date=2021-10-13 }}</ref>
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
| range_map = Elaeagnus distribution.svg
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'''''Elaeagnus''''' ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|ɛ|l|iː|ˈ|æ|ɡ|n|ə|s}})<ref>{{cite book |title=Sunset Western Garden Book |year=1995 |pages=606–7 |publisher=Sunset Publishing Corporation |isbn=978-0-376-03850-0}}</ref> is a [[genus]] of [[flowering plant]]s in the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Elaeagnaceae]].<ref name="cabi">{{cite web|title=''Elaeagnus umbellata'' (autumn olive)|url=https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/20728|publisher=CABI|access-date=8 February 2018|date=3 January 2018}}</ref> Some species of the genus are commonly known as '''silverberry''' or '''oleaster''',