A couple of cotoneasters & a Cyclamen

davidbr · #1 (**permalink**) 20-05-2009, 05:33 AM

Can anyone make any suggestions as to the ID of these three? The first two are Cotoneaster bushes naturalised on waste ground, and the Cyclamen was an escapee from Clevedon Cemetery, North Somerset, found on May 13th - it seemed to me, a very odd date for one to be in flower?

1:

(Cotoneaster, central Bristol; although fringed with hairs, the leaves were glabrous beneath

2:

(Cotoneaster, Cheddar village, Somerset)

3:

(Cyclamen, Clevedon Cemetery, May 13th)

Thanks

aeshna5 · #2 (**permalink**) 20-05-2009, 07:58 PM

Cyclamen looks like C. coum.

kiltoncomp · #3 (**permalink**) 20-05-2009, 08:58 PM

no2 looks like the fishbone cotoneaster, C.horizontalis,
we have one on a south facing wall, which this morning was full of several types of bees, and a favourite nesting site for the local Blackbirds also, so its a good wildlife plant to have in the garden

Brian.

Tiggrx · #4 (**permalink**) 20-05-2009, 09:23 PM

The Cyclamen flowers look the wrong shape for C. coum. They look a bit like C. persicum but I am not very sure.

davidbr · #5 (**permalink**) 23-05-2009, 05:37 AM

I think Tiggrx's suggestion on the cyclamen is correct; it certainly looks very much like Cyclamen persicum.

As for the cotoneasters, No. 1 I've decided is Black-grape Cotoneaster, (C. ignotus); No. 2 looks just to be a Wall Cotoneaster (C. horizontalis) with a slightly different growth habit.

Of course, as always, opinions to the contrary are welcome