Waterer's Cotoneaster

Cotoneaster x watereri

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Plant Data

Flowering Months:

JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC

Order:

Rosales

Family:

Rosaceae (Rose)

Also in this family:

Alpine Lady's-mantle, Barren Strawberry, Bearberry Cotoneaster, Bird Cherry, Blackthorn, Bramble, Bullate Cotoneaster, Burnet Rose, Cherry Laurel, Common Agrimony, Common Hawthorn, Common Lady's-mantle, Common Whitebeam, Crab Apple, Creeping Chinese Bramble, Creeping Cinquefoil, Cultivated Apple, Cultivated Pear, Dewberry, Dog Rose, Dropwort, Entire-leaved Cotoneaster, Firethorn, Fragrant Agrimony, Franchet's Cotoneaster, Garden Lady's-mantle, Goatsbeard Spiraea, Great Burnet, Greengage Plum, Hairless Lady's-mantle, Hollyberry Cotoneaster, Japanese Quince, Japanese Rose, Jew's Mallow, Late Cotoneaster, Marsh Cinquefoil, Meadowsweet, Midland Hawthorn, Mountain Ash, Pale Lady's-mantle, Parsley Piert, Portuguese Laurel, Purple-flowered Raspberry, Raspberry, Rock Whitebeam, Salad Burnet, Shrubby Cinquefoil, Silverweed, Southern Downy Rose, Spring Cinquefoil, Sulphur Cinquefoil, Swedish Whitebeam, Tormentil, Wall Cotoneaster, Water Avens, Wild Cherry, Wild Plum, Wild Strawberry, Willow-leaved Bridewort, Wood Avens

Type:

Semi-evergreen shrub

Life Cycle:

Perennial

Maximum Size:

8 metres tall

Habitats:

Gardens, parkland, towns, wasteland, woodland.

Flower:

White, 5 petals

Many showy, large and white, flat-topped clusters of flowers. Up to 50 flowers per cluster.

Fruit:

The flowers turn into shiny berries, most often red but are sometimes orange, purple or black. Each berry is up to 9mm across.

Leaves:

Waterer's Cotoneaster can be deciduous, evergreen or semi-evergreen. Simple, entire, narrow, elliptical, dark green, veined leaves reaching 10cm in length.

Frequency (UK):

Common

Distribution Map

Reproduced by kind permission of the BSBI.

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