Osteomeles schweriniae Fred Heutte Where ordinary citrus fail at

Where ordinary citrus fail at the first hard frost

so in the humid Southeast the rockrose does best on a raised bed

and largely indifferent to urban conditions

and a rare

Osteomeles schweriniae Fred Heutte Where ordinary citrus fail atOsteomeles 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