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dark-fruited cotoneaster

Cotoneaster melanocarpus

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 167, February 123, March 193, April 304, May 439, June 479, July 512, August 440, September 323, October 241, November 132, December 103.
United States3,471
Alaska3,458
Russia2,239
Irkutsk Oblast494
Chelyabinsk Oblast350
Altai Krai186
Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Ugra140
Tyumen Oblast134
Sverdlovsk Oblast129
Novosibirsk Oblast114

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderRoses, Elms, Figs, and Allies · Rosales
Familyrose family · Rosaceae
GenusCotoneasters · Cotoneaster

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Sources

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Practise dark-fruited cotoneaster with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.