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Shiny cotoneaster or hedge cotoneaster / Cotoneaster lucidus
It is a densely leafy, upright, deciduous shrub with densely pubescent young shoots. Elliptical leaves are pointed, up to 5 centimeters long, sparkling shiny, dark green, purple in autumn. Pink flowers are collected in loose, 3-8-flowered, corymbose inflorescences. Blossoms in May - June for 30 days.
Decorative almost spherical, black fruits, shiny, with brown-red, tasteless flesh, remain on the bushes until late autumn. Fruits from 4 years.
This species is native to Eastern Siberia. Grows singly or in groups in bushes. Light-loving mesophyte, microtherm, mesotroph, assectator of shrub groups and, less often, undergrowth of light coniferous forests. Everywhere in culture.
Propagated by seeds and vegetatively. Seeds require 12-15 months of stratification, which can be shortened by treating them for 5-20 minutes with sulfuric acid followed by 1-3 months of stratification.
One of the best shrubs for creating trimmed hedges, as well as for group planting on lawns, edges, as undergrowth. Suitable for landscaping cities. In culture since the beginning of the XIX century.
Size: up to 2 meters.
Durability: up to 60 years
Cotoneaster is not demanding on the soil, durable, shade-tolerant, although it grows better in the sun, frost-resistant.
Cotoneaster brilliant is used as a hedge in gardens, parks, for landscaping roads in settlements and country roads, for landscaping cottage and summer cottages. Easily tolerates shearing, shaping.
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