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Re: Corokia cotoneaster

> >Can anyone offer specifics for taking cuttings of this plant.  None of
> >my books even list it.
> >
> I found it listed in _The Gardener's Essential Plant Guide_ by Brian Davis,
> as Wire-Netting Bush from New Zealand.  It is described as a low shrub with
> a very slow growth rate and looking weak and insipid in youth.  He
> recommends softwood cuttings taken in early summer.

Does anybody know the scientific name?  I'm partial to cotoneasters, and
would like to learn more...

>  Dirr's _Manual of Woody Landscape Plants_ says "in general softwood
> cuttings of all cotoneaster root readily if treated with 1000-3000ppm
> IBA-quick dip and placed in peat:perlite or sand under mist."   That's what
> I would try.

Air layering is also highly effective with most low-growing cotoneasters.

Chris
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