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26th June 2019, Great Orme, Llandudno, North Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
Welsh Cotoneaster is very rare, growing only on the Great Orme which sits on limestone, and is getting depleted. As a result, the plant has been propagated and planted out on the Great Orme in other places, to save it from total oblivion. This is one such planting. It has not yet had time to reach its full height of 1.5metres. |
26th June 2019, Great Orme, Llandudno, North Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
The leaves somewhat variable in size, from 1cm to 4cm long. |
26th June 2019, Great Orme, Llandudno, North Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
It is irregularly branched |
26th June 2019, Great Orme, Llandudno, North Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
26th June 2019, Great Orme, Llandudno, North Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
The leaves are nearly flat and is tomentose on the obverse, covered in matted white hairs lying flat. The upper surface is not covered in a quarter as many hairs, but they are still flat on the surface with much more of the dark-green of the leaf showing through. |
26th June 2019, Great Orme, Llandudno, North Wales. | Photo: © RWD |
Hairs underside and top-side. |
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Welsh Cotoneaster is one of the rarest plants in the UK and our only native Cotoneaster, and it grows in scrub on limestone. It is deciduous.
The flowers, when they appear on the plant above, occur in bunches of 1 to 4 (occasionally up to 7). The flowers have pale pink petals and white anthers. The fruits, when they appear on the above specimen, are 4 to 11mm, globose, are bright red and have 2 to 3 stones inside.
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