Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Cotoneaster franchetii
Common name
Franchet's Cotoneaster
Family
Rosaceae
Where found
Forest margins, woodland, grassland, roadsides, waste areas, and along streams. ACT and Queanbeyan. Ranges, tablelands, and Western Slopes between the Blue Mountains and Cowra to Young. The most invasive of the cotoneasters that are found in the Blue Mountains.
Notes
Introduced semideciduous shrub or small tree to 5 m high. Fruit fleshy. New growth felty, older branches hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2–3.5 cm long, 7-18 mm wide, upper surface hairy when young but becoming hairless and glossy, veins deeply impressed, lower surface yellowish to greyish felty, tips pointed. Flowers pinkish or pinkish white, 6-10 mm in diameter, with 5 petals, in 5–15-flowered clusters. Fruit orange-red or pinkish orange, 8–10 mm long, 5-10 mm in diameter, mostly with 3 'seeds'.
Family was Malaceae.
Pest plant ACT.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Cotoneaster~franchetii (accessed 2 April 2021)
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