Corokia cotoneaster is a flowering plant in the family Argophyllaceae was described by Étienne Fiacre Louis Raoul in 1846.

This plant is commonly known as the wire-netting bush, korokio, or korokia-tarango.

Corokia cotoneaster is a highly branched shrub with a strongly divaricating habit with rough dark-coloured bark, usually growing to about 3 m in height.

Common variable shrubs with thin gray zig-zag twigs that contain small white clusters underneath with dented or rounded edges and on flat, black petioles.

The leaves are variable, depending on altitude and to the degree of exposure to wind, and are obvo-cuneate to obovate-oblong, 2–15 cm long and 1–10 cm wide.