Flower Notes:
Pink (Small pink flowers are partially masked by foliage; spring)
Foliage Notes:
Green (Glossy, solid dark-green foliage in summer); Red (Reddish fall foliage in some years)
Fruit Notes:
Red (Attractive red fruits (usually not in great abundance); can persist into winter)
Soil Notes:
Quite tolerant of a variety of soil pH and types, except for extremely wet soils
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves are 0.3-1" long and a bit less in width, alternate, simple, elliptic or broad-elliptic with 3-4 pairs of veins. The fruit is 0.33" long and 0.25" wide. Both leaves and fruit are less round than those of Cotoneaster apiculatus, and C. divaricatus leaf margins are not as undulating.
