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habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
older stems and leaves (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
younger stems and leaves (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
close-up of small leaves (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
close-up of leaf undersides (Photo: Sheldon Navie)
Scientific Name
Cotoneaster microphyllus Wall. ex Lindl.
Family
Malaceae (New South Wales)Rosaceae (Queensland, the ACT, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia)
Common Names
cotoneaster, little-leaf cotoneaster, littleleaf cotoneaster, rockspray cotoneaster, small-leaf cotoneaster, smallleaf cotoneaster, small-leaved cotoneaster
Origin
Native to China, Bhutan, northern India, Nepal and Myanmar.
Naturalised Distribution
Naturalised on the southern, central and northern tablelands of New South Wales. Also sparingly naturalised in the ACT and south-eastern South Australia, and possibly naturalised in Victoria.
Notes
This species is regarded as an environmental weed in New South Wales and the ACT, and a potential environmental weed in Victoria. It is beginning to spread from cultivation into native woodlands (e.g. it has become naturalised in dry eucalypt forest in Black Mountain Reserve in Canberra). It is also known from a number of disturbed sites on sandstone-derived soils in eucalypt woodlands on the central tablelands in New South Wales.
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