Amelanchier denticulata (Kunth) K. Koch

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

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'Amelanchier denticulata' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/amelanchier/amelanchier-denticulata/). Accessed 2024-09-16.

Genus

Amelanchier

Synonyms

Cotoneaster denticulata Kunth
Malacomeles denticulata (Kunth) G.N. Jones
Nagelia denticulata Lindl.

Other taxa in genus

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

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'Amelanchier denticulata' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/amelanchier/amelanchier-denticulata/). Accessed 2024-09-16.

Pomes on Malacomeles denticulata (Botanischer Garten Mainz, Germany – 29 August 2022). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

It is disputable whether this species should be retained in Amelanchier or placed in the related, probably monotypic, genus Malacomeles. A native of Mexico, Guatemala and south-west Texas, it might not succeed in the open ground in Britain; eastern England rather than the milder parts would perhaps be the best area in which to try it. It is portrayed in Bot. Mag., n.s., t.753, from a plant then growing in the Temperate House at Kew, which was raised from seeds collected by Lord Talbot de Malahide and D. Clarke in 1965 at Boone Hallberg’s ranch near Oaxaca, Mexico, at about 7,000 ft.

Foliage with leathery, orbicular leaves on Malacomeles denticulata at the Botanischer Garten Mainz, Germany (29 August 2022). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

Densely pubescent lamina lower surface on Malacomeles denticulata (Botanischer Garten Mainz, Germany – 29 August 2022). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

Whitish-tomentose shoot, and leaves with lamina apically truncate to emarginate and glandular dentate at margin on Malacomeles denticulata (Botanischer Garten Mainz, Germany – 29 August 2022). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

The leaves of Malacomeles denticulata are variable, in part the lamina is elliptic (Botanischer Garten Mainz, Germany – 29 August 2022). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

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