Common cotoneaster

Cotoneaster integerrimus

''Cotoneaster integerrimus'', the common cotoneaster, is a species of ''Cotoneaster'' native to central and eastern Europe and southwest Asia, from southern Belgium and eastern France south to Italy, and east through Germany to the Balkans, northern Turkey, the Crimea, the Caucasus and northern Iran; plants in Spain may also belong in this species. In the past, it was treated in a wider sense, including plants from Wales now split off as ''Cotoneaster cambricus'' and plants from Scandinavia now treated as ''Cotoneaster scandinavicus'', but differs from these in genetic profile and detail of foliage and fruit.
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Appearance

It is a deciduous shrub growing to 2 metres tall. The leaves are oval to oval-acute, 1–4 centimetres long, green and thinly pubescent above at first, later glabrous, and densely pubescent below and on the leaf margin, with pale grey hairs. The flowers are produced in corymbs of one to four together in mid spring, each flower 3 millimetres diameter, with five white to pale pink petals. The fruit is a dark red pome 6–8 millimetres diameter, containing two or three seeds. It occurs on limestone soils, at altitudes of up to 2,800 metres altitude.

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Taxonomy
KingdomPlantae
DivisionAngiosperms
ClassEudicots
OrderRosales
FamilyRosaceae
GenusCotoneaster
SpeciesC. integerrimus
Photographed in
Bulgaria