Shrub to about 4 m tall, softly hairy on the new growth. Leaves evergreen, to about 10 cm long, elliptic to lanceolate, thick, the upper surface shiny dark green and wrinkled, lower surface with a felt of hair. Flowers in clusters of over 30 flowers; late spring to early summer. Fruit about 5 mm wide, red, with 3-5 nutlets.
China.
Source: (2002). Rosaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
Cotoneaster salicifolius 'Rothschildianus'
Leaf pale green above. Fruit cream to pale yellow.