Pyracantha angustifolia - Narrowleaf Firethorn

Narrowleaf Firethorn is a shrub or small tree, up to 4 m tall, often with thorny branches. Flowers are borne in compound corymbs 2-4 cm across, several flowered. Flowers are about 2.5 mm in diameter. Petals are nearly round, about 4 mm, tip rounded or notched. Stamens are 20, with 1.5-2 mm long filaments, with reddish-brown anthers prominent against the white petals. Sepal cup is bell-shaped, densely gray woolly. Sepals are triangular, 1-1.1 mm, below densely gray woolly, tip pointed. Flower-stalks are 1-2 mm, densely gray woolly. Ovary white woolly; styles nearly as long as stamens. Flower-cluster-stalk is densely gray woolly; bracts falling off, lanceshaped. Branchlets are purplish brown when old, densely grayish yellow woolly when young, hairless when old. Leaf-stalk 1-2.5 mm or leaves stalkless; leaf blade narrowly oblong to inverted-lanceshaped-oblong, 1.5-5 cm x 4-8 mm, below densely gray woolly, above initially gray woolly, soon becoming hairless, base wedge-shaped, margin entire, tip blunt, apiculate, or notched. Pome is reddish, depressed-spherical, 5-6 mm in diameter; sepals persistent, erect. Narrowleaf Firethorn is found in thickets on slopes, at roads, in NE India to S. China, at altitudes of 1600-3000 m. Flowering: May-June.