Includes apples, apricots, plums, cherries, peaches, pears, raspberries, strawberries, almonds, roses, meadowsweets, photinias, firethorns, rowans, and hawthorns; many others
Genus
Dasiphora
Greek for “hair bearing” and perhaps refers to the hairy bark and hairy seeds
Species
fruticosa
From the Latin frutex, “a shrub,” therefore, shrubby, bushy
ssp.
floribunda
From floris, “flower,” or florere, “to flower,” with the Latin adjectival suffix -bundus used in the sense of doing or action accomplished, and thus meaning “profusely flowering, producing or having produced abundant flowers”
