| Scientific Name: | Pyracantha coccinea |
| Common Name: | scarlet firethorn, pyracantha |
| Family Name: | Rosaceae |
| Origin: | Europe, South Asia / India |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Broadleaf evergreen, Semi-evergreen |
| Mature Size: | 3 - 5m x 4 - 5m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading |
| Form: | Irregular, Round |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Container planting, Espalier, Mixed shrub border, Screening, Security/barrier, Specimen plant, Wildlife food |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Leathery, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Lustrous, Elliptic, Lanceolate, Oblanceolate, Obovate, Crenate, Serrulate |
| Flowers: | Corymb, White, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Pome, Orange, Red, Aug-Sep, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Irregular shaped shrub, often trained to climb; stems covered in thorns 1-4cm long; leaves alternate, most oblanceolate, 2-5cm long x 1-2cm wide, leathery, glossy, dark green, margin serrulate-crenate; corymb flowers each with 5 cupped petals, 5 fused sepals, 15 stamens, 1 pistil with 5 stigma branches; pomes 6-9mm wide, orange-red, in clusters. | |