Cotoneaster lucidus

Shrubs, 1.5–2.5 m. Stems erect, arching, or spreading; branches spiraled or distichous, dense, greenish gray to maroon, not lenticellate, initially strigose. Leaves deciduous; petiole 4–8 mm, strigose; blade elliptic or ovate, sometimes obovate, 28–50(–65) x 17–32(–40) mm, chartaceous, base cuneate or rounded, margins flat, not revolute, veins 3–5, sunken, apex short-acuminate or acute, abaxial surfaces green, sparsely pilose-strigose, adaxial dark green, intensely shiny, not glaucous, flat or scarcely bulging between lateral veins, slightly rugose, initially sparsely strigose; fall leaves intense dark red, yellow, or orange. Inflorescences on fertile shoots 25–50 mm with 4 or 5 leaves, 2–6(–15)-flowered, lax. Pedicels 5–12 mm, sparsely pilose. Flowers 5.5–8 mm, largely open; hypanthium cupulate, base sparsely pilose, glabrescent; sepals: margins villous, apex acute or acuminate, surfaces glabrous; petals erect, pinkish white, sometimes green-tinged, base dark pink or reddish; stamens 18–20, filaments pink, base dark pink, anthers white; styles 2 or 3. Pomes black, broadly obovoid to obovoid, rarely ellipsoid or globose, (8–)9.5–12.1 x (7.5–)8.7–11.8 mm, shiny, glaucous, sparsely pilose; sepals flat, margins villous, sparsely pilose; navel open; style remnants 2/3 from base. Pyrenes 2 or 3. 2n = 68 (Germany).

Water moderately, allowing the top 3cm to dry out between watering.

Cotoneaster Lucidus

Cotoneaster lucidus

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