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Cotoneaster newryensis is a species of flowering plant in the Rosaceae family that can be found in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces of China.
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Description
The species is 3–5 metres (9.8–16.4 ft) tall. It apex is acute, while the base is either cuneate or obtuse. Its petioles are 5–7 millimetres (0.20–0.28 in) and are both strigose and villous. Its fertile shoots not to mention 3-5 leaves are 30–50 millimetres (1.2–2.0 in) in length with the stamens being of 18–20 millimetres (0.71–0.79 in) long. Both the fruits and the flowers are 7–8 millimetres (0.28–0.31 in) in length. The fruits are globose, obovoid, red and shiny, with green coloured calyx lobes which are flat. The flowers bloom in June, while fruits ripe from September to October.
Species history
C. newryensis was first raised at Thomas Smith's Daisy Hill Nursery in Ireland from where it was moved to be distributed by Barbier Nursery in France. It appeared at Lemoine nursery catalogue by 1911 in Nancy, France.