Cotoneaster rhytidophyllus
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Cotoneaster rhytidophyllus' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Other taxa in genus
- Cotoneaster acuminatus
- 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 rotundifolius
- Cotoneaster rubens
- Cotoneaster salicifolius
- Cotoneaster simonsii
- Cotoneaster tomentosus
- Cotoneaster turbinatus
- Cotoneaster uniflorus
- Cotoneaster zabelii
An evergreen shrub up to 6 ft high, of graceful spreading habit; young shoots clothed at first with whitish down, which becomes tawny and mostly falls away before winter. Leaves of hard texture, oval-lanceolate, slender-pointed, tapered towards the base; 11⁄2 to 31⁄2 in. long, 1⁄2 to 11⁄8 in. wide; dark glossy green, wrinkled and at first downy above; grey, woolly and strongly veined in five to ten pairs beneath; stalk about 1⁄8 in. long. Flowers white, borne ten to twelve together in corymbs about 11⁄2 in. wide. Fruits pear-shaped, at first very downy, finally orange-red, 1⁄4 in. long, containing three or four nutlets.
Native of W. Szechwan, China; discovered and introduced by Wilson in 1908. It is closely related to C. henryanus, but the leaves of that species have up to twelve pairs of veins, they are not so woolly beneath, and the fruits have only two or three seeds. Some plants cultivated under this name are really the common C. henryanus.