Irish wildflowers sitemap


Photographs: Inchidoney, Co.Cork

Wall Cotoneaster
Cotoneaster horizontalis
Cainchín balla
Family: Rosaceae

Flowering: April-June. Evergreen shrub. Garden escape.

Small pink-tinged white flowers, 5 petalled, followed by small red fruit.
Small shiny-green leaves. Horizontally spreading stems, branched.
Height: To 1.5m.

Habitat: Quarries, waste ground, walls, rocky grassland, pavement cracks.
Garden escape, introduced.
     
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