Scientific name:

Cotoneaster lacteus

Vernacular name:

Cotoneaster, Late

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Late Cotoneaster

Scientific name: Cotoneaster lacteus W.W. Sm.

Diagnostic features
Evergreen, spreading shrub to 5m.
Leaves 3.5-9cm, slightly shiny and with deeply impressed veins on upperside, tomentose on lowerside.
Inflorescences more than 30-flowered.
Anthers purplish-black.
Fruits bright red to crimson-red, 5-6mm, ± globose, with 2 stones.

Habitat
Introduced-naturalized.

Distribution
Britain North to Central Scotland, planted as field-hedges in East Anglia; Southwest China.

This species is keyed out on Page 2412 in the Text Key.

Note
One of the latest flowering and fruiting species; fruits rarely ripen before November.

Cotoneaster lacteus 2 (Flowering, picture taken in Leics by C.A. Stace)
Cotoneaster lacteus 3 (Fruiting, picture taken in Leics by C.A. Stace)
Cotoneaster lacteus 4 (Flowering habit, picture taken in cultivation by J.Fryer)
Cotoneaster lacteus 5 (Flowering, picture taken in cultivation by J.Fryer)
Cotoneaster lacteus 6 (Fruiting habit, picture taken in cultivation by J.Fryer)
Cotoneaster lacteus 7 (Fruiting, picture taken in cultivation by J.Fryer)
Cotoneaster lacteus a (Fruiting branch, drawing by H. Thompson in Stace, 1997)

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