Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Cotoneaster glaucophyllus

Flowers and leaves. Photographer Don Wood, near Bodalla

Green and ripe fruit and leaves. Photographer John Tann, near Sydey

Fruiting shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Canberra, ACT

Line drawings. d. flowering branch; e. fruits. EM Mayfield, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board

Common name

Glaucous Cotoneaster, Bright Bead Cotoneaster, Cotoneaster

Family

Rosaceae

Where found

Urban bushland, woodland, grassland, roadsides, disturbed sites, coastal environs, and along streams. Mainly Sydney area, ACT, coast, and along the Hume and Great Western Highways.

Notes

Introduced evergreen shrub to 5 m high. Fruit fleshy. Young stems hairy, becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2–8 cm long, 15–40 mm wide, upper surface hairless, lower surface white-hairy, sometimes becoming hairless or slightly glaucous, tips blunt to pointed, mucronate. Flowers white, 5-8 mm in diameter, with 5 petals. Flowers in 20-60 flowered clusters. Flowers spring- summer. Fruit orange to red, 6-8 mm in diameter, usually with 2 'seeds'.

Family was Malaceae.

General Biosecurity Duty all NSW. Pest plant ACT.

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cotoneaster~glaucophyllus (accessed 2 April 2021)