Hupeh Cotoneaster

Description

A deciduous shrub up to 6 ft high, of a spreading graceful habit due to its long arching shoots which, when young, are downy, becoming glabrous and purplish later. Leaves ovate or oval, mostly pointed but sometimes blunt at the apex, mostly rounded at the base; I to 11-2 in. long, 1-2 to 3-4 in. wide; glabrous and dark green above, greyish and thinly downy beneath; stalk 1-8 in. long. Flowers white, copiously produced in May on the upper side of the shoots in small clusters of six to twelve blossoms; flower-stalks 1-4 to 1-2 in. long, downy like the calyx. Fruit bright red, globose, 1-3 to 1-2 in. wide, containing two nutlets. Bot. Mag., n.s., t. 245.