× Pyracomeles vilmorinii Rehd.

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

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'× Pyracomeles vilmorinii' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/x-pyracomeles/x-pyracomeles-vilmorinii/). Accessed 2024-03-29.

Other taxa in genus

    Glossary

    apex
    (pl. apices) Tip. apical At the apex.
    glabrous
    Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
    globose
    globularSpherical or globe-shaped.
    hybrid
    Plant originating from the cross-fertilisation of genetically distinct individuals (e.g. two species or two subspecies).
    imparipinnate
    Odd-pinnate; (of a compound leaf) with a central rachis and an uneven number of leaflets due to the presence of a terminal leaflet. (Cf. paripinnate.)

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    Credits

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

    Recommended citation
    '× Pyracomeles vilmorinii' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/x-pyracomeles/x-pyracomeles-vilmorinii/). Accessed 2024-03-29.

    An evergreen shrub up to 6 ft high; young shoots slender, at first greyish-downy, soon glabrous. Leaves pinnate at the base, pinnately lobed towards the apex, 1 to 112 in. long; leaflets or lobes five to nine, oval, rounded and toothed at the apex, glabrous or nearly so. Flowers white, 25 in. wide, numerous in terminal corymbs; stamens twelve to fifteen. Fruits 16 in. wide, globose, coral-red.

    A natural hybrid between Pyracantha atalantioides and Osteomeles subrotunda, which appeared in Chenault’s nursery at Orleans some time previous to 1922, when it had been obtained for, and was in cultivation in, the de Vilmorins’ garden at Verrières. It develops numerous fruits and is very handsome when they are ripe in autumn. Said to come true from seed.