Cotoneaster acutifolius Turcz.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Cotoneaster acutifolius' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/cotoneaster/cotoneaster-acutifolius/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

Synonyms

  • C. pekinensis Zab.

Glossary

calyx
(pl. calyces) Outer whorl of the perianth. Composed of several sepals.
glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
lanceolate
Lance-shaped; broadest in middle tapering to point.
ovate
Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Cotoneaster acutifolius' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/cotoneaster/cotoneaster-acutifolius/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

A deciduous shrub of bushy habit 5 to 10 ft high, branches often pendulous; young twigs downy. Leaves pointed, ovate-lanceolate to oval, 1 to 212 in. long, half as wide; dull green, and with scattered hairs above, paler and hairy beneath especially when young; veins in five or six pairs; stalk 112 to 18 in. long. Flowers white, three or more together in corymbs; stalks and calyx woolly, lobes of calyx triangular. Fruit reddish at first, finally black, 13 in. diameter, glabrous; nutlets usually two.

Native of Mongolia, N. and W. China and the E. Himalaya. This is not one of the handsomest of cotoneasters, and is, perhaps, a poor form of C. lucidus (q.v.). There has been much confusion between the two, owing to C. lucidus also having been called C. acutifolius; but from that species the present one is distinguished by its dull green, not shining, more hairy leaves, and its woolly calyx and flower-stalks.


C tenuipes Rehd. & Wils

This cotoneaster, which was introduced by Wilson from W. Szechwan, China, bears a close resemblance to the preceding variety, but differs in its smaller leaves ({3/5} to 1{1/5} in. long, more densely hairy beneath).

var. villosulus Rehd. & Wils.

Synonyms
C. villosulus (Rehd. & Wils.) Flinck & Hylmö

Young shoots clothed with yellowish-grey loose hairs, becoming glabrous and purplish brown the second year. Leaves 1{1/2} to 4{1/2} in. long, {1/2} to 2{1/4} in. wide, larger and more drawn-out at the apex than in the type. Petals rose-tinted white. Fruit roundish pear-shaped, {2/5} in. long, woolly, ultimately shining black. Native of the region from W. China to the E. Himalaya; introduced by Wilson from W. Hupeh in 1900. A very vigorous shrub.