Franchet Cotoneaster                ko-toe-nee-AS-ter fron-SHAY-tee-i

• Evergreen shrub, 6-8(10) ft [1.8-2.4(30 m], wide as tall, arching growth.   Leaves about 2.5 x 1.5 cm, fairly thick, gray-green above and silver and pubescent below, oval-elliptic to broad.   Flowers (spring), grouped, 5-15, white to pink, petals erect.  Fruit 5 mm diam., orange-red, oblong, in clusters, persists.  C. franchetii arches more than say C. simonsii and leaves are silver below.
• Sun.  Does best in a well-drained, but somewhat dry, soil.  Best if not pruned.
• Hardy to USDA Zone (6)7     Native to Tibet and western China
• franchetii: after Adrien Franchet (1834-1900), a French botanist.