Pyracantha crenulata
Common names
Nepalese firethorn
Biostatus
Exotic
Category
Vascular
Structural class
Trees & Shrubs - Dicotyledons
Flower colours
White
Detailed description
Evergreen shrub to about 2 m high. Leaves to about 5 x 1 cm, glabrous on both sides, shining above and pale green below. Leaf margins serrulate along whole margin. White flowers produced in small clusters, followed by red or orange-red globbose fruit to 6 mm wide.
Similar taxa
Can easily be separated from P. angustifolia as it has longer leaves that are glabrous on the undersurface. Easily confused with P. crenatoserrata , but P. crenulata has narrower leaves with teeth along the whole margin.
Conservation status
Not applicable
Detailed taxonomy
Family
Rosaceae
Ecology
Flowering
November, December
Year naturalised
1982
Origin
Himalaya
Other information
Etymology
crenulata: From the Latin crenus ‘notch’, meaning with notches which give a leaf margin the appearance of having small rounded teeth