Plant: Rockspray Cotoneaster
Rockspray Cotoneaster · Cotoneaster horizontalis
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
Rockspray cotoneaster is a coarse, dense, slow growing shrub reaching 2 to 3 feet tall and 6 to 8 feet wide with a horizontal spreading habit and branchlets held in a fishbone pattern. Half inch glossy dark green leaves turn red in fall, five petaled pink and white flowers open in late spring, and abundant quarter inch bright red fruits follow in late summer. It takes full sun to partial shade, tolerates clay, sand, drought, poor soil, pollution and a wide pH range, and works on slopes, walls, patios, walkways and in containers as a border, hedge or mass planting. Bees and songbirds use it.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 3 ft tall and 8 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-7
- Semi-Evergreen foliage
Plant description
Rockspray cotoneaster is a coarse, dense, slow growing shrub reaching 2 to 3 feet tall and 6 to 8 feet wide with a horizontal spreading habit and branchlets held in a fishbone pattern. Half inch glossy dark green leaves turn red in fall, five petaled pink and white flowers open in late spring, and abundant quarter inch bright red fruits follow in late summer. It takes full sun to partial shade, tolerates clay, sand, drought, poor soil, pollution and a wide pH range, and works on slopes, walls, patios, walkways and in containers as a border, hedge or mass planting. Bees and songbirds use it.
- Flowers
- Half inch five petaled pink flowers appear in late spring.
- Foliage
- Half inch round to elliptic glossy dark green leaves turning red in fall.
- Fruit
- Oval quarter inch wide bright red fruits appear in late summer and hold into fall.
- Bark & stems
- Greenish to red brown stems with branchlets arranged in a distinctive fishbone pattern.
- Native range
- Central and Southern China and Taiwan
