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Magnoliopsida
Pyracantha
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Thorny shrubs. Stipules caducous. Leaves simple, entire, serrate or crenate. Flowers in corymbs. Petals 5, white. Stamens numerous. Carpels 5; ovules 2. Styles 5. Fruit red, orange or yellow, with 5 pyrenes.
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Origin: Exotic
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Unknown/Undetermined
Confidence: Confident
Pyracantha rogersiana (Asian firethorn) is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae, native to western China. Growing to 4 metres (13 ft) tall and broad, it is an evergreen shrub with glossy, narrow leaves, and masses of white flowers followed by small yellow berries 8 mm in diameter. It is grown in gardens, yards, and parks, where it can be used as hedging, wall cover, or in a mixed shrub border.[1][2] The cultivar 'Flava' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.[3]
The seeds are poisonous if ingested and may result in vomiting.
References
- ^ RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN 1405332964.
- ^ "Pyracantha rogersiana". Plant Database. Retrieved April 28, 2008.
- ^ "Pyracantha rogersiana (Flava)". Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved April 28, 2008.
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In Great Britain and/or Ireland:
Foodplant / internal feeder
larva of Anomoia purmunda feeds within fruit of Pyracantha
Foodplant / gall
Eriosoma lanigerum causes gall of white woolly-covered branch of Pyracantha
Remarks: season: 3-
Foodplant / pathogen
Erwinia amylovora infects and damages flower of Pyracantha
Foodplant / web feeder
communal caterpillar of Malacosoma neustria feeds from web on live leaf of Pyracantha
Foodplant / pathogen
Tubercularia anamorph of Nectria cinnabarina infects and damages branch of Pyracantha
Remarks: season: 1-12
Foodplant / open feeder
caterpillar of Orgyia antiqua grazes on live leaf of Pyracantha
Remarks: season: -7/8
Foodplant / sap sucker
Parthenolecanium corni sucks sap of live shoot of Pyracantha
Foodplant / miner
caterpillar of Phyllonorycter leucographella mines live, upward folding leaf of Pyracantha
Remarks: season: esp winter
Foodplant / sap sucker
hypophyllous Pulvinaria floccifera sucks sap of live leaf of Pyracantha
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:58
Specimens with Sequences:98
Specimens with Barcodes:69
Species:8
Species With Barcodes:7
Public Records:38
Public Species:5
Public BINs:0
Pyracantha is a genus of thorny evergreen large shrubs in the family Rosaceae, with common names firethorn or pyracantha. They are native to an area extending from Southeast Europe east to Southeast Asia, resemble and are related to Cotoneaster, but have serrated leaf margins and numerous thorns (Cotoneaster is thornless).
The plants reach up to 6 m (20 ft) tall. The seven species have white flowers and either red, orange, or yellow berries (more correctly pomes). The flowers are produced during late spring and early summer; the pomes develop from late summer, and mature in late autumn.
Species[edit]
- Pyracantha angustifolia. Southwest China.
- Pyracantha atalantioides. Southern China.
- Pyracantha coccinea (Scarlet firethorn). Northeastern Spain east to Northern Iran.
- Pyracantha crenatoserrata. Central China.
- Pyracantha crenulata. Himalaya.
- Pyracantha koidzumii. Taiwan.
- Pyracantha rogersiana. Yunnan.
Cultivars[edit]
Selected hybrids and cultivars (those marked agm have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit)
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Cultivation[edit]
Pyracanthas are valuable ornamental plants, grown in gardens for their decorative flowers and fruit, often very densely borne. Their dense thorny structure makes them particularly valued in situations where an impenetrable barrier is required. The aesthetic characteristics of pyracanthas, in conjunction with their home security qualities, makes them an alternative to artificial fences and walls. They are also good shrubs for a wildlife garden, providing dense cover for roosting and nesting birds, summer flowers for bees and an abundance of berries as a food source.
Berries[edit]
Pyracantha berries (as are apples, plums, cherries, and almonds[4])are mildly poisonous as they contain Cyanogenic glycosides and can cause mild gastro-intestinal problems when eaten raw in large quantities;[4][5][6] they are edible only when crushed and washed under running water. They have been made into jelly.[7]
Nectar[edit]
In the UK and Ireland Pyracantha and the related genus Cotoneaster are valuable sources of nectar when often the bees have little other forage during the June Gap.
Notes[edit]
- ^ Potter, D. et al. (2007). "Phylogeny and classification of Rosaceae". Plant Systematics and Evolution 266 (1–2): 5–43. doi:10.1007/s00606-007-0539-9. [Referring to the subfamily by the name "Spiraeoideae"]
- ^ "RHS Plant Selector - Pyracantha 'Orange Glow'". Retrieved 30 May 2013.
- ^ "RHS Plant Selector - Pyracantha 'Teton'". Retrieved 30 May 2013.
- ^ a b http://www.rightdiagnosis.com/p/plant_poisoning_cyanogenic_glycoside/intro.htm
- ^ http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/plantox/detail.cfm?id=15436
- ^ de:Feuerdorn
- ^ Questions about Pyracantha answered by Dr Jerry Parsons of the Texas Cooperative Extension (hosted by Texas A&M University)
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Fujian, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang.
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Shrubs to 3 m tall. Lateral branches short, thornlike; young branchlets rusty pubescent, dark brown and glabrescent when old. Petiole glabrous or initially slightly pubescent; stipules not seen; leaf blade obovate or obovate-oblong, 1.5–6 × 0.5–2 cm, both surfaces glabrous, base cuneate, margin serrate with teeth incurved, apex obtuse or emarginate, sometimes shortly apiculate. Compound corymb rather loose, 3–4 cm in diam.; peduncle subglabrous; bracts caducous, lanceolate. Pedicel ca. 1 cm, subglabrous. Flowers ca. 1 cm in diam. Hypanthium campanulate, abaxially glabrous. Sepals triangular, 1–1.5 mm, glabrous, margin entire, apex obtuse. Petals suborbicular, ca. 4 × 3 mm, apex rounded or obtuse. Stamens 20; filaments 3–4 mm. Ovary densely white pubescent apically; styles ca. as long as stamens. Pome orangish red or dark red, subglobose, ca. 5 mm; fruiting pedicel 2–5 mm; sepals persistent, erect. Fl. Mar–May, fr. Aug–Nov. 2n = 34*.
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