| 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 |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, obovate-elliptic, serrulate, about 5cm long x 1.5cm wide; florets white, about 1cm wide, 5 petals, in corymb-like cymes, pomes about 7mm round or slightly flattened, red or orange. | |