Osteomeles schweriniae Fred Heutte Part to full shade suits

Part to full shade suits the plant best

and unusually cold hardy for a citrus of lime character

Dendropanax joins the Greek for tree

along a path edge

Osteomeles schweriniae Fred Heutte Part to full shade suitsOsteomeles schweriniae, the bone apple, is a refined evergreen shrub in the rose family, close kin to hawthorn, cotoneaster, and photinia, and a botanical rarity seldom seen in American gardens. The genus name joins the Greek osteon, bone, and melon, apple, a nod to the stony hardness of the little fruits, while the species epithet honors the German dendrologist Count Fritz von Schwerin. Native to the dry valleys and open slopes of Yunnan and western