N° 21 - pyracantha, buisson ardent

Description

Family: Rosacées Kind: Pyracantha Named in Japanese pyracan to pronounce "pilakan" where he/it has been introduced at the end of the XIX ème century. Distributed in moderate Asia and on the Mediterranean periphery, this kind unites 7 species. All form spiny shrubs, of 3 to 6 meters of height, cultivated for their obstinate foliage, usually green quick sheen, and for their red, yellow or orange bays, produced to profusion in fall. Foods but insipid, these are liked very of the birds. The vernal, gracious flowering but ephemeral, of small white flowers, grouped in corymbes all along the branches on two short spurs. Plants of moderate climate, the pyracanthas adjusts to nearly all soils. They fructify better in the sun, in one soil keeping his/her/its freshness by dry time, if the situation agrees to them, they naturalize themselves gladly to the point to become invading.