Common name: Chinese Photinia
Photinia serratifolia (Desf.) Kalkman APNI* Synonyms: Photinia serrulata Lindl. APNI*
Description: Evergreen shrub or tree to 12 m high; young shoots and leaves copper-red, with some hairs, soon glabrous.
Leaves oblong to elliptic, 8–14 cm long, 2–7 cm wide, margins with spinose teeth fine to saw-like, glabrous, upper surface glossy dark green, lower surface yellow-green; petiole 2–3 cm long; stipules with glandular margins.
Inflorescence ± corymbose, up to 8 cm long. Flowers white, c. 8 mm diam. Sepals triangular. Petals broad-ovate, 3–4 mm long.
Fruit subglobose to obovoid, 5–6 mm diam., red, apex flattened, upper part of receptacle and sepals closely appressed against top of fruit; seeds 2–4, brown.
Flowering: Flowers spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Often cultivated as an ornamental, rarely naturalized; recorded for Ku-ring-gai Chase N.P. Native of China and Taiwan.
NSW subdivisions: *CC, *ST, *NWS
Other Australian states: *S.A.
Formerly placed in the family Malaceae (now part of Rosaceae), e.g. Flora of New South Wales Vol. 1 (1990).
Text by G.J. Harden & A.N. Rodd
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 Suppl. (1999)
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