Pyracantha coccinea
Pyracantha coccinea
Ateşdikeni
Shrub up to 3 m high; young twigs grey-pubescent; spines leafless. Leaves lanceolate, elliptic or obovate-elliptic, 2-4 x 1-1,5 cm, crenate-serrate, pubescent beneath, especially when young, or entirely glabrous; petioles 5-10 mm. Corymbs many-flowered. Flowers up to 8 mm diam.; pedicels 5 mm. Fruit globose, 5-7 mm diam., red or occasionally yellow or orange. Fl. 4-6. Limestone slopes, sand dunes, in open woodland and scrub, 30-1800 m.
S. Europe, Crimea, Caucasia, N.W. Iran. Wild in Turkey, especially near the Black Sea coast; also cultivated for its ornamental berries .
