Cotoneaster dielsianus Pritz.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Cotoneaster dielsianus' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/cotoneaster/cotoneaster-dielsianus/). Accessed 2024-03-29.

Synonyms

  • C. applanatus Duthie

Glossary

calyx
(pl. calyces) Outer whorl of the perianth. Composed of several sepals.
distichous
Arranged in two vertical ranks.
ovate
Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Cotoneaster dielsianus' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/cotoneaster/cotoneaster-dielsianus/). Accessed 2024-03-29.

A deciduous shrub 6 ft, perhaps more, high, with long, extremely slender, arching or quite pendulous branches; branchlets downy when young. Leaves 12 to 112 in. long, 38 to 1 in. wide, ovate; hairy above when young, covered beneath with felt, at first white afterwards pale brown; veins prominent. Flowers pinkish, three to seven in a cluster, terminating side shoots 1 in. or so long; calyx and flower-stalk hairy, calyx lobes shallowly triangular. Fruit scarlet, round or rather pear-shaped, 14 in. long; nutlets three or four.

Native of Central China; introduced for Messrs Veitch by Wilson in 1900. It flowers in June, and the fruit is in full colour in September and October; it is then one of the most effective of cotoneasters. The habit is singularly graceful, the long whip-like shoots spreading outwards and downwards in every direction. Duthie’s name C. applanatus refers to the distichous arrangement of the branches of young plants, which gives them the appearance of a wall-trained tree.

From the Supplement (Vol. V)

This species is one of the best cotoneasters for autumn colour, as well as for its fruits.


var. elegans Rehd. & Wils.

Synonyms
C. elegans (Rehd. & Wils.) Flinck & Hylmö

Leaves thinner but more persistent than in the type and somewhat longer (to {3/5} in. long); fruits pendulous, orange-red. Introduced by Wilson from W. Szechwan in 1908.