''Cotoneaster roseus'' is native to portions of the Himalayas, Iran,

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and western Pakistan, northwest India and

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. 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.

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