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Cotoneaster glaucophyllus, photographed by an iNaturalist contributor
(c) Saryu Mae 前 朝琉, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY
#1319 most planted

Cotoneaster glaucophyllus

Glaucous cotoneaster · also Bright bead cotoneaster, Late cotoneaster, Large-leaf cotoneaster

SpreadingEvergreen
61
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
1
city
3.8 in
median trunk (10 cm, 61 measured)

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Cotoneaster glaucophyllus is a spreading evergreen shrub that can reach up to 5 meters (16 ft) in height. It has oblong leaves and produces clumps of red berries after flowering. Native to China and the Himalayas, it is considered a weed in some regions like Australia and New Zealand.

Where it grows

Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.

  1. Melbourne · Australia
    61—3.8 in

No city in this list records planting dates for this species, so age is blank throughout.

Traits

Form
Spreading
Foliage
Evergreen
Mature height
16.4 ft

Trunk diameters across every city: median 3.8 in, mean 3.7 in, 90th percentile 5.6 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.

Native range

Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.

Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

  • South China-Vietnam subtropical evergreen forests

Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests

  • Central China Loess Plateau mixed forests

Montane Grasslands & Shrublands

  • Southeast Tibet shrublands and meadows

Other Cotoneaster in the catalogue

9 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.

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