‘Sepers’ 
‘Shawnee’ 
‘Shirofu-fukurin’ 
[Plants received at U.S. National Arboretum, September 23, 1957, from 
John Vermeulen & Son, Neshanic Station, New Jersey, and April 11, 1960, 
from Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, without descrip- 
tion.] Letter February 25, 1960, Leonard Sepers, Sepers Nursery, Vineland, 
New Jersey : Very hardy; bushy; leaves turn bronze about November; 
believed to be a P. coccinea seedling. No additional information available. 
(D.R. Egolf. Baileya 14(2):61-63. 1966) : Globose, densely branched shrub, 
3.5 m high and as much in breadth; young shoots rusty pubescent, soon 
becoming glabrous and reddish brown, older branches dark brownish 
grey; thorns on leafy shoots and terminating lateral branches; leaves short 
stalked, 0.5-5 cm long, 0.5-1.8 cm wide, oblanceolate to narrow-elliptic, 
coriaceous, glossy, dark green above (Parsley Green 00962, HCC) and 
Willow Green 000862/1 beneath, pubescent at first, soon becoming 
glabrous, semi-persistent; flowers in corymbs 2.5-3.5 cm in diameter, with 
12-20 flowers, about 2 mm long and wide, petals white; fruit oblate, 6-9 
mm in diameter and 4-7 mm long, Yellow Orange 23A to Orange 25A 
(RHS), smooth and glossy, ripening in early August and persisting until 
midwinter, not readily eaten by birds; resistant to scab and fire blight; 
zone 7b. F, seedling of P. ‘San Jose’ (considered a spontaneous hybrid of 
P. koidzumii x P. crenato-serrata); selected at the U.S. National Arbore- 
tum in 1963; introduced in 1966. Name registered by Donald R. Egolf, 
January 3, 1966; NA No. 28179; PI No. 315887. D.R. Egolf and R.F. 
Drechsler. Baileya 15(2):87. 1967 : Chromosome number 2n=34. 
(Iseli Nursery, Boring, Oregon. Catalog, p. 56. 1989) : Mounding shrub; up 
to 6 ft high and 8 ft wide; leaves with white margins; fruit red, large; zone 
5. Name registered by Philip M. Normandy, Brookside Garden, Maryland 
National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Wheaton, Maryland, 
September 21, 1989 : Presumed to be selection of P. koidzumii; collected 
by Barry Yinger in garden of Yoshimichi Hirose, Tokyo, Suginami-ku, 
Japan, in 1977 for Brookside Garden; growth appears to be more spread- 
ing than upright; leaves obovate to oblanceolate, white margins, and white 
overcast giving a gray appearance; flowers typical for genus; fruit bright 
cherry red; probably hardy to zone 6b or 7a. Introduced by Brookside 
Garden in 1978. 
? P. koidzumii 
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