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Berries: (6-9mm, poisonous, orange-red, obovoid) |
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26th June 2019, flanks of, Great Orme, Llandudno, North Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
Growing amongst Red Valerian, this shrub has either erect or arching branches and grows up to 3m in height. |
26th June 2019, flanks of, Great Orme, Llandudno, North Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
26th June 2019, flanks of, Great Orme, Llandudno, North Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
It is an evergreen species. |
26th June 2019, flanks of, Great Orme, Llandudno, North Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
The leaves vary between 2cm to 3.5cm long. Stems are round and woody. |
26th June 2019, flanks of, Great Orme, Llandudno, North Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
Stems reddish-brown. Flowers in bunches of 5 to 15. |
26th June 2019, flanks of, Great Orme, Llandudno, North Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
These flowers are bell-shaped with five red to white petals. |
26th June 2019, flanks of, Great Orme, Llandudno, North Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
Leaf veins are deeply indented into the top surface (silvery to yellowish tomentose - densely covered in short, soft hairs on underside). |
26th June 2019, flanks of, Great Orme, Llandudno, North Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
26th June 2019, flanks of, Great Orme, Llandudno, North Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
Flowers have pale-purple anthers. Leaves not bullate (with the surface not raised as strikingly in 'blisters', as are those of Bullate Cotoneaster). |
26th June 2019, flanks of, Great Orme, Llandudno, North Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
The calyx lobes are acuminate (with a point at the tip in the shape of a '}') [seen best in the top-most flower] |
26th June 2019, flanks of, Great Orme, Llandudno, North Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
The calyx lobes are acuminate (with a point at the tip in the shape of a '}') [seen best in the top-most flower] |
The fruits, of which your Author as-yet has no photos, are orange-red and 6-9mm long and are broad-oval in shape. Contributions welcome :-) It is a naturalised neophyte found scattered in Britain and Ireland and north up to North and Central Scotland. Also in the Channel Islands. It came from South West China.
It is very close in features to |
Cotoneaster | franchetii | ⇐ Global Aspect ⇒ | Rosaceae |
Cotoneaster (Cotoneasters) |
Rose Family [Rosaceae] |