Himalayan firethorn
घिंगारू
Pyracantha crenulata (D.Don) M.Roem.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 2.7 m
- wide
- —
Rosaceae
Also called Nepalese Firethorn, Nepal firethorn, Sichuan firethorn, Gibb's Firethorn, Chinese firethorn
Formerly Cotoneaster crenulatus, Cotoneaster fortunei, Cotoneaster pyracantha, Crataegus crenulata, and 16 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- N. Pakistan to NW. India and ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 2.4 m to 3.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Piracanto de Nepal, Piracanto de Sichuan, Piracanto chino
- Chinese
- 細圓齒火棘, 火棘, 四川火刺木
- Japanese
- カザンデマリ, インドトキワサンザシ, ヒマラヤピラカンサ
- Chinese (China)
- 细圆齿火棘, 全缘火棘, 火棘
- Swedish
- nepaleldtorn
- German
- Chinesischer Feuerdorn
- Russian
- Пираканта городчатая
- Afrikaans
- Himalajase branddoring, himalayavuurdoring, Nepalese vuurdoring
- Hebrew
- פירקנתה משורית
- Italian
- Agazzino crenulato
- Polish
- ognik himalajski
- Slovak
- hlohyňa vrúbkovaná
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Pyracantha crenulata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.