Scientific Name: Pyracantha fortuneana
Common Name: Chinese firethorn
Family Name: Rosaceae
Origin: Europe, South Asia / India
Hardiness Zone: Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C)
Plant Type: Broadleaf evergreen
Mature Size: 3 - 5m x 2 - 3m (height x width)
Habit: Spreading, Upright
Form: Irregular, Round
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Container planting, Espalier, Mixed shrub border, Screening, Security/barrier, Specimen plant, Tall background, Wildlife food
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Leathery, Glabrous, Lustrous, Elliptic, Lanceolate, Oblanceolate, Crenate, Serrulate
Flowers: Corymb, White, Apr-May
Fruit: Edible, Pome, Red, Aug-Sep, (Persistent)
Key ID Features:
Leaves alternate, obovate-elliptic, serrulate, about 5cm long x 1.5cm wide; flowers white, about 1cm wide, 5 petals, in corymb-like cymes, pomes about 7mm round or slightly flattened, red or orange.