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Cotoneaster Cotoneaster

Most rated Cotoneaster records are fire-resistant — 5 of 13 records, including the genus rated as a group. These counts describe the cited records — 13 records carrying 67 evidence rows from 27 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.

Rated as a group: Cotoneaster Cotoneaster spp. Fire-resistant Majority — dissent on page 9 sources rate the genus as a whole. Species evidence never rolls upward into a genus verdict, and genus claims never override a species record.
Fire-resistant

4 species

Keep away

1 species

Awaiting evidence

7 species

About Cotoneaster

Corpus context. Cotoneaster is the directory's #35 largest of 550 genus groups: 13 records carrying 67 evidence rows from 27 cited sources, recorded as shrub, tree , hardy across USDA zones 2–7. Recorded trait flags: 1 carry invasive risk flags — each cited on its page. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.

Where rated Cotoneaster grow

Tagged as growing in 18 states.

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