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Cotoneaster acuminatus
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Cotoneaster acuminatus' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Other taxa in genus
- Cotoneaster acutifolius
- Cotoneaster adpressus
- Cotoneaster affinis
- Cotoneaster ambiguus
- Cotoneaster amoenus
- Cotoneaster apiculatus
- Cotoneaster bullatus
- Cotoneaster buxifolius
- Cotoneaster congestus
- Cotoneaster conspicuus
- Cotoneaster cooperi
- Cotoneaster dammeri
- Cotoneaster dielsianus
- Cotoneaster distichus
- Cotoneaster divaricatus
- Cotoneaster foveolatus
- Cotoneaster franchetii
- Cotoneaster frigidus
- Cotoneaster glabratus
- Cotoneaster glaucophyllus
- Cotoneaster harrovianus
- Cotoneaster hebephyllus
- Cotoneaster henryanus
- Cotoneaster horizontalis
- Cotoneaster hupehensis
- Cotoneaster integerrimus
- Cotoneaster lacteus
- Cotoneaster lindleyi
- Cotoneaster lucidus
- Cotoneaster melanocarpus
- Cotoneaster microphyllus
- Cotoneaster moupinensis
- Cotoneaster multiflorus
- Cotoneaster nitens
- Cotoneaster nitidifolius
- Cotoneaster obscurus
- Cotoneaster pannosus
- Cotoneaster prostratus
- Cotoneaster racemiflorus
- Cotoneaster rhytidophyllus
- Cotoneaster rotundifolius
- Cotoneaster rubens
- Cotoneaster salicifolius
- Cotoneaster simonsii
- Cotoneaster tomentosus
- Cotoneaster turbinatus
- Cotoneaster uniflorus
- Cotoneaster zabelii
A deciduous shrub 10 to 14 ft high, of erect habit; young shoots thickly covered with a pale brown wool. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, 1 to 2 in. long, about half as wide, long-pointed, dark green and silky-hairy above when young, paler and more hairy beneath; stalk 1⁄4 in. or less long. Flowers more or less pink, 3⁄8 in. across, produced in small clusters of rarely more than five, often of two or three, on short leafy twigs. Fruit red, 1⁄3 in. long, oblong, thickening towards the top; downy near the apex; nutlets two.
Native of the Himalaya, up to 12,000 ft; first raised in this country by Loddiges of Hackney in 1820. The species, which is not much grown in gardens now, is allied to C. simonsii, but differs in its much larger, longer-pointed leaves. According to Brandis it often occurs as underwood in oak forests.