Cotoneaster rubens
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Cotoneaster rubens' 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 rhytidophyllus
- Cotoneaster rotundifolius
- Cotoneaster salicifolius
- Cotoneaster simonsii
- Cotoneaster tomentosus
- Cotoneaster turbinatus
- Cotoneaster uniflorus
- Cotoneaster zabelii
A deciduous shrub 2 to 4 ft high, of stout, flattish, spreading habit, irregularly branched; young shoots downy. Leaves roundish to broadly oval, 1⁄2 to 1 in. long, thinly hairy above at first, covered with pale yellowish wool beneath, obscurely mucronate; stalk scarcely discernible. Flowers solitary, almost stalkless, terminating short shoots, 3⁄8 in. wide, described by Forrest as ‘red’; petals orbicular, 1⁄6 in. wide; calyx ovoid, appressed-downy; sepals ciliate; ovary densely woolly.
Native of Yunnan, China, discovered by Forrest in 1915. The late Mrs Gwendolen Anley, of Woking, showed a plant at Vincent Square in January 1935.
From the Supplement (Vol. V)
This species, originally discovered in Yunnan, ranges through northern Burma and south-east Tibet to Bhutan. Dr Brian Mulligan tells us it is in cultivation at the Washington University Arboretum, Seattle, from seeds collected by Ludlow and Sherriff in Bhutan in 1949.