‘Mohave’ 
‘Mohave Silver’ 
‘Monelf 
‘Monon’ 
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(D.R. Egolf. Baileya 17(2):79-82. 1970) : Semi-evergreen to evergreen 
shrub; upright, openly branched, 4 m high and as much in breadth; 
stout stems widely spreading from base, young branches light green, 
becoming smooth dark reddish brown; thorns on leafy shoots or termi- 
nating lateral branches; leaves short petioled, 1.4-6.0 cm long, 0.6-2.0 
cm wide, oblanceolate to elliptic, glossy, dark green (Yellow Green 147A, 
RHS); flowers in cormybose panicles, mostly 4-5 cm in diameter, with 
35-55 flowers, 9-12 mm in diameter, creamy white, abundant in early 
May; fruit oblate, 20-40 per inflorescence, 3.6-6.2 mm in diameter, 6-12 
mm long, Orange Red 32A, with less intense red coloration as fruit 
matures to a much lighter orange, smooth and waxy, ripening in mid- 
August and persisting until midwinter, not readily eaten by birds; resis- 
tant to fire blight and scab; chromosome number 2n=34; zone 6; a 
hybrid of P. koidzumii x P. coccinea ‘Wyatti’ developed at the U.S. 
National Arboretum in 1963; selected in 1965; introduced in 1971. Name 
registered by Donald R. Egolf, May 25, 1970; NA No. 32225; PI No. 
347258. Awarded RHS Certificate of Preliminary Commendation, Octo- 
ber 26, 1971; RHS Award of Merit, October 1973; RHS First Class Cer- 
tificate, November 1984. 
(Name registered by H.J. van de Laar, Boskoop, Holland, May 5, 1992) : 
Leaves greyish green, with irregular, narrow white margin; slower grow- 
ing than ‘Mohave’; flowers and fruit not yet seen; not hardy in severe 
winters; mutation of ‘Mohave’ selected 1985 by P.M. van Sleeuwen, 
Boekel in Province North Brabant, The Netherlands; named and intro- 
duced by P.M. van Sleeuwen in 1990. 
(Monrovia Nursery, Azusa, California. Catalog, p. 94. 1989, as P. hybrid 
‘Red Elf™ Monelf). 
= ‘Red Elf’, ‘Leprechaun’, ‘Red Midget’, ‘Red Pixie’ 
(Monrovia Nursery, Azusa, California. Catalog, p. 93. 1989, as P. 
angustifolia ‘Yukon Belle™ Monon’). 
= ‘Gnome’, ‘Gnozam’, ‘Yukon Belle’, ‘Yukon Jack’ 
