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Cotoneaster integrifolius; photograph (c) Sandra Stewart, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Sandra Stewart, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2026-04-26

Cotoneaster integrifolius (Roxb.) G.Klotz

Entire-leaved cotoneaster; Rockspray; Fringed Cotoneaster; Tibetan Cotoneaster

Rosaceae · China South-Central, Tibet +5

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Cotoneaster integrifolius, photograph (c) Barry Stewart, some rights reserved (CC BY)Cotoneaster integrifolius, photograph (c) Rosy Thomson, some rights reserved (CC BY)Cotoneaster integrifolius, photograph (c) Rosy Thomson, some rights reserved (CC BY)Cotoneaster integrifolius, photograph (c) Rosy Thomson, some rights reserved (CC BY)Cotoneaster integrifolius, photograph (c) 王天明, some rights reserved (CC BY)Cotoneaster integrifolius, photograph (c) Phill Robinson, some rights reserved (CC BY) 20 photographs ›

Summary

Cotoneaster integrifolius, the entire-leaved cotoneaster, is a species of Cotoneaster that is a low growing shrub. It has been grown as an ornamental plant in gardens and public rock gardens. It has been introduced to Ireland, but has become naturalised. It produces a red berry-like pome fruit that are an important food source for birds that disperse the seeds in their droppings. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Cotoneaster integrifolius", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Cotoneaster

Cotoneaster is a genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, native to the Palaearctic region, with a strong concentration of diversity in the genus in the mountains of southwestern China and the Himalayas. They are related to hawthorns (Crataegus), firethorns (Pyracantha), photinias (Photinia), and rowans (Sorbus).

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Cotoneaster", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 1 of the 2 in-range records is placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though it counts for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, Tibet, Assam, East Himalaya, Nepal, West Himalaya, Myanmar · introduced: Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Washington, California · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“shrub” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 2 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 885 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 1 in-range record is placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stays on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Barry Stewart, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Rosy Thomson, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) 王天明, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Phill Robinson, some rights reserved (CC BY).

Other Cotoneaster 101 in the reference

Cotoneaster acuminatus Cotoneaster acuminatus Acuminate cotoneaster Photo: CC BY, Sagnik Dutta RoyCotoneaster acutifolius Cotoneaster acutifolius Peking cotoneaster Photo: CC BY, Jane CharlenCotoneaster adpressus Cotoneaster adpressus Creeping cotoneaster Photo: CC BY, Remi Aleksander NielsenCotoneaster affinis Cotoneaster affinis Purpleberry cotoneaster Photo: CC BY, jamie-aaCotoneaster alaunicus Cotoneaster alaunicus Rosaceae Photo: CC BY, Fyodor PudovikovCotoneaster ambiguus Cotoneaster ambiguus Ambiguous Cotoneaster Photo: CC BY-SA, Jens KristiansenCotoneaster apiculatus Cotoneaster apiculatus Cranberry cotoneaster Photo: CC BY, Jacy ChenCotoneaster armenus Cotoneaster armenus Rosaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizCotoneaster ascendens Cotoneaster ascendens Ascending Cotoneaster Photo: CC0, author not stated Cotoneaster beimashanensis Rosaceae Cotoneaster bradyi Brady's Cotoneaster Cotoneaster bullatus Cotoneaster bullatus Hollyberry cotoneaster Photo: CC BY, Rosy Thomson all 102 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Caragana integrifolia; Cotoneaster brandisii; Cotoneaster brevirameus; Cotoneaster buxifolius var. lanatus; Cotoneaster buxifolius var. marginatus and 17 more. (GBIF Backbone)

Under another author Cotoneaster microphyllus Lodd. and Cotoneaster microphyllus T.T.Yu is an older name of this species, not Cotoneaster microphyllus, a species of the reference. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Rosaceae
Described by
(Roxb.) G.Klotz
Native to
China South-Central, Tibet, Assam +4
Wild records
2 in range · 2 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 17 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (14 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium, 2 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 58 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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