Banks Peninsula, above Akaroa, Long Bay Road, near A-frame
Verbatim collector:
Hugh Wilson & Andrew Youngman
Standardised collector:
Hugh D. Wilson; A. Youngman
Verbatim date:
8 Jun 2015
Start date:
2015-06-08
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Native lands:
Ngāi Tahu
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Series 260:
N36 110 117 (WGS84 -43.802132 173.012267)
Altitudes:
from 500m
Habitat:
Roadside bank, not far from house garden.
Notes:
No Cotoneaster horizontalis found in garden. Several individuals of C. horizontalis found along about 100 m of roadside bank and eliminated.Low-growing shrub with small rounded rather thin-textured leaves, more or less hairy beneath, colouring up yellow, orange and red, obviously deciduous; branching pattern in flattened planes; fruit red, abundant.