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Tree Cotoneaster
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Tree Cotoneaster
P Native Photo: Tabish
Common name: Tree Cotoneaster • Chinese: 耐寒栒子 Nai han xun zi • Nepali: छर Chhar
Botanical name: Cotoneaster frigidus    Family: Rosaceae (Rose family)
Synonyms: Cotoneaster comptus, Cotoneaster himalaiensis

Tree Cotoneaster is an erect deciduous shrub to a small tree, up to 10 m tall, with branched clusters of many white flowers. It has large woolly-haired flower clusters, and scarlet fruit. Flowers are 6-7 mm in diameter. Sepal-cup is woolly-haired, sepals pointed. The leaves are oblong to lanceshaped pointed, 3.5-8 x 1.5-3 cm, veins raised below and slightly impressed above, narrowed to the base, woolly-haired beneath when young, becoming hairless. Tree Cotoneaster is found in the Himalayas to Tibet.

Identification credit: Saroj Kasaju Photographed in Tawang district, Arunachal Pradesh.

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