Wall Cotoneaster - Cotoneaster horizontalis
It is a short shrub with a spreading habit, growing to 1 metre tall by 1.5 metres wide. Leaves simple, untoothed. Flowers pink-tinged white in rounded clusters. Berries are red and rather leathery persisting into winter.
Disturbed places and stony ground.
Flowering late spring and early summer followed by red berries.
Deciduous.
Widespread in Britain.
Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland. It was not recorded in the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire.
Paul Ruddoch
Asfordby Hill
08 October 2015
Paul Ruddoch
Asfordby Hill
08 October 2015
Ken Charity
Ketton Quarry NR
20 August 2015
Graham Calow
Main Street, Cosby
16 May 2016
David Nicholls
Thornton reservoir
20 September 2021
Saharima Roenisch
Abbey Park
24 November 2017
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Species profile
- Common names
- Wallspray, Wall Cotoneaster
- Species group:
- Trees, Shrubs & Climbers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Rosales
- Family:
- Rosaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 25
- First record:
- 11/01/2015 (Helen Ikin;Steve Woodward)
- Last record:
- 02/07/2025 (Pugh, Dylan)
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Graham Calow
Main Street, Cosby
16 May 2016
Graham Calow
Main Street, Cosby
16 May 2016
Melinda Bell
Kirby Muxloe, Castle
30 June 2019
Craig Mabbett
Broughton Astley Brick Quarry
24 October 2015
Melinda Bell
Breedon, Breedon Hill
27 December 2020
Graham Calow
Church Lane, Wigston Parva
28 March 2016
Firethorn Leaf Miner
The larva of the Firethorn Leaf Miner moth (Phyllonorycter leucographella) mine the leaves of a number of species including Firethorn (Pyracantha coccinea), Apple, London Plane and Hawthorn. The mine is usually on the upper side, silvery in appearance and over the midrib.
Apple Leaf Miner
The larva produces a leafmine on a number of species, especially Cherry, Apple, Rowan, Hawthorn, Blackthorn and other trees and shrubs in the Rosaceae family. It is also commonly found on Birch. The mine is long, smoothly curved gallery with frass in a central line; older mines look whitish. The larva is long and slender. It has a segmented body and 6 dark feet.