order: rosales
family: rosaceae
genus: cotoneaster
species: dammeri
cultivar: 'streibs findling'
Cotoneaster is one of my favourite genera. It belongs to the rose family, like most of other fruiting trees we have in the garden. There are different forms of cotoneaster from small trees, low bushes, knee-high groundcovers to ground-hugging ones. They bear small white flowers from late spring to early summer, of which the ovaries slowly swell into red rounded fruits by early winter.
'Streibs Findling' is a cultivar of the dammeri species with dwarfed character. Its growth is the tightest of all different cultivars I've encountered so far. I acquired this plant at the end of 2012. One year's growth is between 10 to 15 cm, which is not impressive at all if compared to other dammeri cultivars, but more or less meets my expectation. Small leaves of less than 1 cm are dark green, shiny and obovate. They are held alternately in a prostrate manner. The flowers are borne singly. The decorative red fruits are kept throughout the entire winter.
This is an absolutely stressfree plant, so there isn't much to mention about its care. If planted in the ground, it can even be used for xeriscaping. It's completely frost hardy and looks its best even when partially hidden under a thick blanket of wintry snow.
family: rosaceae
genus: cotoneaster
species: dammeri
cultivar: 'streibs findling'
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| cotoneaster with berries in the last days of 2013. |
Cotoneaster is one of my favourite genera. It belongs to the rose family, like most of other fruiting trees we have in the garden. There are different forms of cotoneaster from small trees, low bushes, knee-high groundcovers to ground-hugging ones. They bear small white flowers from late spring to early summer, of which the ovaries slowly swell into red rounded fruits by early winter.
'Streibs Findling' is a cultivar of the dammeri species with dwarfed character. Its growth is the tightest of all different cultivars I've encountered so far. I acquired this plant at the end of 2012. One year's growth is between 10 to 15 cm, which is not impressive at all if compared to other dammeri cultivars, but more or less meets my expectation. Small leaves of less than 1 cm are dark green, shiny and obovate. They are held alternately in a prostrate manner. The flowers are borne singly. The decorative red fruits are kept throughout the entire winter.
This is an absolutely stressfree plant, so there isn't much to mention about its care. If planted in the ground, it can even be used for xeriscaping. It's completely frost hardy and looks its best even when partially hidden under a thick blanket of wintry snow.