Osteomeles schweriniae Fred Heutte and a rare

and a rare

Where ordinary citrus fail at the first hard frost

up to four or five inches across

and largely indifferent to urban conditions

and small mammals in country that offers little else

Osteomeles schweriniae Fred Heutte and a rareOsteomeles schweriniae, the bone apple, is a refined evergreen shrub in the rose family, close kin to hawthorn, cotoneaster, and photinia, and a botanical rarity seldom seen in American gardens. The genus name joins the Greek osteon, bone, and melon, apple, a nod to the stony hardness of the little fruits, while the species epithet honors the German dendrologist Count Fritz von Schwerin. Native to the dry valleys and open slopes of Yunnan and western