Open-fruited Cotoneaster - Cotoneaster bacillaris
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Species Description
deciduous shrub or small tree occurring as a naturalised garden escape on roadsides, banks and waste ground.. cultivated in Britain since 1841 and was recorded in the wild in 1923.
Stace 4:
Cotoneaster bacillaris Wall. ex Lindl. (C. affinis var. bacillaris (Wall. ex Lindl.) C.K. Schneid.) - Open-fruited Cotoneaster.
Deciduous shrub or tree to 5m, with widely arching branches; leaves 3-10cm, flat on upperside, very sparsely hairy on lowerside; inflorescences 7-30-flowered; anthers mauve; fruits purplish-black, 6-10mm, broadly obovoid, with dense white bloom, with 2 stones showing at apex; (2n=34, 51, 68). Neophyte-survivor; England North to Derbyshire; Himalayas.
Key:
- Fruits soon becoming purplish- to brownish black when ripe, usually exposing stones at apex
- Fruits with dense whitish bloom, with very open apex exposing stones; inflorescences 7-30-flowered