Franchet's Cotoneaster - Cotoneaster franchetii
Shrub to 3 metres with small oval leaves shiny green above, white-felted beneath. Flowers small, pinkish or white followed by bright orange-red berries. There are numerous cultivars and precise identification can be difficult.
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Occurs as an escape from cultivation, often close to human habitation.
Flowers in June.
Semi-evergreen shrub.
Occasional but widespread as an escape from cultivation in Britain.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known. It was not recorded in the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire.
Graham Calow
Higham on the Hill
09 July 2015
Graham Calow
Higham on the Hill
09 July 2015
whitish underside of leves
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Species profile
- Common names
- Franchet's Cotoneaster
- Species group:
- Trees, Shrubs & Climbers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Rosales
- Family:
- Rosaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 4
- First record:
- 27/06/2015 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 08/06/2024 (Rodgers (RNHS), John)
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