Firethorn - Pyracantha coccinea
This evergreen thorny shrub has small white flowers and bright orange or red berries.
Sometimes escapes from cultivation to establish in hedgerows or woods.
Flowers in June.
Thorny evergreen shrub.
Occasional but widespread in the southern half of Britain as an escape from cultivation.
Rarely recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland. It was not recorded in the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire.
Melinda Bell
Spring Cottage, track behind play area
26 October 2021
Craig Mabbett
Swannington Road, Broughton Astley
24 September 2016
Melinda Bell
Spring Cottage, track behind play area
26 October 2021
Steve Mathers
River Soar (Barrow to Pilling Lock)
17 October 2016
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Species profile
- Common names
- Firethorn
- Species group:
- Trees, Shrubs & Climbers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Rosales
- Family:
- Rosaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 7
- First record:
- 24/09/2016 (Mabbett, Craig)
- Last record:
- 14/09/2024 (Pugh, Dylan)
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