Family: Rosaceae
Cotoneaster simonsii
Citation:
Baker in Saund., Ref. Bot. 1:t. 55 (1869).
Synonymy: Cotoneaster symondsii Common name: None
Description:
Erect shrub; evergreen; sparsely pubescent, young twigs densely so; leaves 1.5-2 cm long, ovate to ovate-elliptic, apex acute, base rounded to broadly cuneate; somewhat clustered on short shoots.
Flowers 2-4 or rarely 1 in short cymes; petals white with red markings.
Fruit c. 8 mm long, obovoid, bright-red.
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Image source: fig 235 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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Cultivated as a garden shrub for its red berries and sparingly naturalised in S.Aust.
S.Aust.: SL. Native to India.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: in spring.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
C. pannosa Franch., with leaves densely white-tomentose below, is occasionally spontaneous in suburban gardens, but is not yet recorded as naturalised.
Author:
Not yet available
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