| Scientific Name: | Cotoneaster apiculatus |
| Common Name: | cranberry cotoneaster |
| Family Name: | Rosaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Ground cover, Shrub - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 1.5 - 2.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Spreading |
| Form: | Irregular, Mounded, Oval - horizontal, Weeping |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract birds, Fall interest, Group or mass planting, Screening, Winter interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Leathery, Lustrous, Pubescent, Obovate, Ovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, Pink, May-Jun |
| Fruit: | Pome, Red, Jan-Feb-Aug-Sep-Oct-Nov-Dec, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Upright to broad and mounding with pendent or long spreading branches; leaves broadly ovate-obovate, 5-13(-19)mm long x 5-13cm wide, glossy with attractive fall colours, apex with short point (apiculate), petioles 1-3mm long; small flowers with 5 erect pinkish petals in late spring; pomes red, cranberry-like in summer and persist through the winter, 6-8mm wide. | |