코로키아 코토네아스테르-[정명] Corokia cotoneaster Raoul

과명	앵글러- Escalloniaceae (에스칼로니아과)
속명	Corokia (코로키아속)
전체학명	[정명] Corokia cotoneaster Raoul
추천명	코로키아 코토네아스테르
영문명	Wire netting bush
추천명변경: 코토네아스테르코로키아 -> 코로키아 코토네아스테르

Corokia cotoneaster is a flowering plant in the family Argophyllaceae was described by Étienne Fiacre Louis Raoul in 1846. This plant is commonly known as the wire-netting bush, korokio, or korokia-tarango. The word "Koriko" comes from the Māori language.

Identifications

Corokia cotoneaster is a highly branched shrub with a strongly divaricating habit with rough dark-coloured bark, usually growing to about 3 m in height. Common variable shrubs with thin gray zig-zag twigs that contain small white clusters underneath with dented or rounded edges and on flat, black petioles. Yellow flowers, star-shaped and red fruits. The leaves are variable, depending on altitude and to the degree of exposure to wind, and are obvo-cuneate to obovate-oblong, 2–15 cm long and 1–10 cm wide. The leaves of juveniles are long and spathulate with 3 lobes. Flowers are borne in leaf axils or terminally in groups of 2 to 4 flowers with bright yellow petals. The main flowering season is December to January.

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