Erect spiny shrub or small tree to c. 4 m high; young shoots white-pubescent. Leaves simple, narrowly oblong to oblanceolate-oblong, mostly 2–5 cm long, 5–10 mm wide, base tapering, apex obtuse, mucronate, margins entire, revolute, upper surface dark green, glabrescent, lower surface white-tomentose; petiole 1–3 mm long; stipules minute, early caducous. Flowers in dense corymbs on short lateral shoots; pedicels tomentose. Sepals tomentose; stamens persistent in fruit. Pome subglobose, 5–8 mm diam., glabrescent, yellow to deep orange; pyrenes 5. Flowers spring–summer.
VVP, MuF, GipP, WaP, CVU, DunT, EGU, HSF, Strz. Also naturalised SA, Qld, NSW, ACT. Native of China.
A widely cultivated plant, recorded as naturalised along the Murray River near Tocumwal and Cobram, at Lima South, Mt Evelyn and at Studley Park, Kew
Source:
Jeanes, J.A.; Jobson, P.C. (1996). Rosaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 556–585. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
