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Cotoneaster roseus

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Species of flowering plant

Cotoneaster roseus
Pink and white flowers
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Cotoneaster
Species: C. roseus
Binomial name
Cotoneaster roseus
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Cotoneaster roseus is native to portions of the Himalayas, Iran, northern and western Pakistan, northwest India and Kashmir. The Latin name roseus means rosy or pink, and refers to its flower petals. It was first described by the Irish botanist Michael Pakenham Edgeworth as Cotoneaster rosea in 1846.

References

  1. ^  Cotoneaster roseus was first described and published (as C. rosea) in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 20:46. 1846 "Cotoneaster roseus". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved August 24, 2011.
Taxon identifiers
Cotoneaster roseus


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