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Scientific name:

Cotoneaster adpressus

Vernacular name:

Cotoneaster, Creeping


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Creeping Cotoneaster

Scientific name: Cotoneaster adpressus Bois

Diagnostic features
Usually procumbent, deciduous shrub to 0.3m, with irregular branching.
Leaves 0.5-1.5cm, matt on upperside, ± undulate, very sparsely pubescent on lowerside.
Flowers 1(-2) together.
Anthers white.
Fruits bright red, 6-7mm, subglobose, with 2 stones.

Habitat
Introduced-naturalized.

Distribution
West Kent and Lanarks; ?West China.

This species is keyed out on Page 2446 in the Text Key.

Cotoneaster adpressus
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