Crataegus pyracantha var. pauciflora(Poir.) Steud.
Gymnopyrenium pyracantha(L.) Dulac
Mespilus lalandeiDippel
Mespilus paucifloraPoir., nom. rej.
Mespilus pyracanthaL.
Mespilus pyracantha var. pauciflora(Poir.) Dum.Cours.
Oxyacantha amygdalifoliaBubani
Pyracantha coccinea var. fructu-alboRehder, not validly publ.
Pyracantha coccinea var. implexaLavallée, nom. nud.
Pyracantha coccinea var. lalandeiDippel
Pyracantha coccinea f. latifoliaZabel
Pyracantha coccinea var. pauciflora(Poir.) Dippel
Pyracantha lucidade Vos
Pyracantha pauciflora(Poir.) M.Roem.
Pyracantha pyracantha(L.) Voss, not validly publ.
Pyracantha pyracantha f. lalandeiVoss
Pyracantha spinosade Vos
Pyracantha spinosa lalandeide Vos
Pyracantha vulgarisLothelier, nom. nud.
Timbalia pyracantha(L.) Clos
Pyracantha coccinea, the scarlet firethorn[2] is the European species of firethorn or red firethorn that has been cultivated in gardens since the late 16th century.[3] The tree has small white flowers. It produces small, bright red berries. Its leaves are slightly toothed and grow opposite to one another. The fruit is bitter and astringent, making it inedible when raw. The fruit can be cooked to make jellies, jams, sauces and marmalade. It ranges from southern Europe to western Asia. It has been introduced to North America and cultivated there as an ornamental plant since the 18th century.
In England, since the late 18th century, it has been used to cover unsightly walls.[4]
Pyracantha coccinea 'Lalandei'. About 1874, M. Lalande, a nurseryman in Angers, France, selected from seedlings of P. coccinea an improved form, more freely berrying than the type. A sport has produced a yellow-berried form. These, and further selections, have largely ousted the ordinary form from nursery stock.[6]
↑ Alice M. Coats, Garden Shrubs and Their Histories (1964) 1992, s.v. "Pyracantha" notes that it does not appear in John Gerard's Herball of 1597 but was in gardens before 1629, when John Parkinson mentions it, as the "ever greene Hawthorne or prickly Corall tree".
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