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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Cotoneaster affinis' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
A deciduous shrub to about 15 ft high. Young shoots downy at first, later glabrous. Leaves mostly two-ranked, obovate, oblanceolate to elliptic, about 11⁄4 to 31⁄4 in. long, 3⁄5 to 14⁄5 in. wide, acute or blunt at the apex, dull green above, downy or woolly beneath when young but becoming glabrous; leaf-stalks 1⁄5 to 2⁄5 in. long, downy at first. Flowers white, borne numerously in cymose clusters 1 to 2 in. across at the end of short axillary branchlets; inflorescence densely hairy in all its parts, but becoming partly glabrous. Fruit roundish, dark purplish brown to almost black, about 1⁄4 in. across.
Native of the Himalaya; introduced in 1828. C. affinis is allied to C. frigidus, but well distinguished by the colour of the fruits. It is rarer in cultivation than the following variety:
Synonyms
C. bacillaris Lindl