Cotoneaster roseus

Cotoneaster roseus
Pink and white flowers
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Rosales
Family:	Rosaceae
Genus:	Cotoneaster
Species:	C. roseus
Binomial name
Cotoneaster roseus Edgew. [1]

Cotoneaster roseus is native to portions of the Himalayas, Iran, northern and western Pakistan, northwest India and Kashmir.^[1] The Latin name roseus means rosy or pink, and refers to its flower petals. It was first described by the Irish botanist Michael Pakenham Edgeworth as Cotoneaster rosea in 1846.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c}  Cotoneaster roseus was first described and published (as C. rosea) in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 20:46. 1846 GRIN (January 12, 2010). "Cotoneaster roseus information from NPGS/GRIN". Taxonomy for Plants. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?11796. Retrieved August 24, 2011. "[published as] "rosea""