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Cotoneaster horizontalis

Seedlings. Whanganui. May 2011.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Whanganui. May 2011.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Whanganui. Nov 2011.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Cultivated, Whanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 24/04/2016, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Leaf underside; cultivated, Whanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 24/04/2016, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

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Common names

wall spray

Biostatus

Exotic

Structural class

Trees & Shrubs - Dicotyledons

Flower colours

Red/Pink

Similar taxa

C. horizontalis resembles C. microphyllus in its sprawling growth and distichous branching system, deciduous habit, and more or less erect, pinkish flowers (Webb et al. 1988). but the leaves of C. horizontalis are more orbicular and flat with rounded (not apiculate) tips and the branching is less strongly distichous (more ‘herring-bone’ pattern in C. perpusillus).

Conservation status

Not applicable

Detailed taxonomy

Family

Rosaceae

Authority

Cotoneaster horizontalis Decne.

Ecology

Year naturalised

1994

Origin

W. China

Life cycle and dispersal

Deciduous shrub.

Other information

Etymology

cotoneaster: From cotoneus an old Latin name for the quince, and possibly aster, corruption of adinstar ‘resembling’, i.e. quince-like

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