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Cotoneaster rubens W. W. Sm.

Modern name

Cotoneaster rubens W.W.Sm.

A deciduous shrub 2 to 4 ft high, of stout, flattish, spreading habit, irregularly branched; young shoots downy. Leaves roundish to broadly oval, 12 to 1 in. long, thinly hairy above at first, covered with pale yellowish wool beneath, obscurely mucronate; stalk scarcely discernible. Flowers solitary, almost stalkless, terminating short shoots, 38 in. wide, described by Forrest as ‘red’; petals orbicular, 16 in. wide; calyx ovoid, appressed-downy; sepals ciliate; ovary densely woolly.

Native of Yunnan, China, discovered by Forrest in 1915. The late Mrs Gwendolen Anley, of Woking, showed a plant at Vincent Square in January 1935.



From the Supplement (Vol. V)

This species, originally discovered in Yunnan, ranges through northern Burma and south-east Tibet to Bhutan. Dr Brian Mulligan tells us it is in cultivation at the Washington University Arboretum, Seattle, from seeds collected by Ludlow and Sherriff in Bhutan in 1949.

Genus

Cotoneaster

Other species in the genus