''Cotoneaster scandinavicus'', commonly known as Scandinavian cotoneaster, is a species of '' Cotoneaster'' native to Scandinavia, in Norway,

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and Finland south of the

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, the

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island of

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, and also the

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of Estonia and

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.Den virtuella floran
''Cotoneaster scandinavicus''
(in Swedish) It is a recently described species, closely related to (and formerly considered conspecific with) ''

Cotoneaster integerrimus ''Cotoneaster integerrimus'', the common cotoneaster, is a species of '' Cotoneaster'' native to central and eastern Europe and southwest Asia, from southern Belgium and eastern France south to Italy, and east through Germany to the Balkans, nort ...

'' from central and eastern Europe and southwest Asia, and is also related to ''

Cotoneaster cambricus ''Cotoneaster cambricus'' (wild cotoneaster; Welsh: ''Creigafal y Gogarth'' "rock apple of Gogarth") is a species of ''Cotoneaster'' endemic to the Great Orme peninsula in north Wales. It is the only species of ''Cotoneaster'' native to the Briti ...

'' from Wales. It differs from ''C. integerrimus'' in that the

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are always glabrous above, and the 5 mm diameter fruit are light orange-red, not dark red. It grows up to 2 m (7 ft) tall (though usually much less), and occurs primarily on thin soils over chalk and limestone.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2712538 scandinavicus Flora of Northern Europe