Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Photinia serratifolia
Common name
Chinese Photinia
Family
Rosaceae
Where found
Naturalised. Mainly Sydney area. Widespread elsewhere but not common.
Notes
Introduced shrub or tree to 12 m high. Leaf margins with fine to saw-like spiny teeth. Fruit fleshy. Young shoots and leaves copper-red, slightly hairy, soon hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 8–14 cm long, 20–70 mm wide, hairless, upper surface glossy dark green, lower surface yellow-green. Flowers white, with 5 petals each 3–4 mm long. Flowers in many-flowered clusters. Fruit red, almost round to oval, 5–6 mm in diameter.
Family was Malaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Photinia~serratifolia (accessed 31 January, 2021)
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