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The tree's Latin name, torminalis, means "good for colic". The name "chequers" may have been derived from the ancient symbol of a pub being the chequer-board (as the fruit were once used to flavour beer) [10] or the spotted pattern of the fruit, [11] though some suggest it comes from the pattern of the bark on old trees. [citation needed]
Amelanchier (/ æ m ə ˈ l æ n ʃ ɪər / am-ə-LAN-sheer), [1] also known as shadbush, shadwood or shadblow, serviceberry or sarvisberry (or just sarvis), juneberry, saskatoon, sugarplum, wild-plum [2] or chuckley pear, [3] is a genus of about 20 species of deciduous-leaved shrubs and small trees in the rose family .
The fruit is a reddish-purple pome, resembling a small apple in shape. They ripen in summer and are very popular with birds. [5] [6] [7] The fruit is eaten by over 40 species of birds and various mammals, including squirrels, rabbits, chipmunks, mice, voles, foxes, black bears, deer, and elk. [4]
Cormus domestica, commonly known as service tree [2] or sorb tree, is a species of tree native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa (Atlas Mountains), and southwest Asia (east to the Caucasus).
Amelanchier alnifolia, the saskatoon berry, Pacific serviceberry, western serviceberry, western shadbush, or western juneberry, [2] is a shrub native to North America. It is a member of the rose family , and bears an edible berry-like fruit.
Wild service-tree: Sorbus torminalis: Native to Europe, south to northwest Africa, and southeast to southwest Asia: Berries (from September), edible raw, but hard and bitter unless bletted [32] Lime: Tilia × europaea: Occasionally in the wild in Europe, or commonly grown in parks, on roadsides or in ornamental woods: Flowers (in full bloom ...
Amelanchier canadensis (bilberry, [2] Canadian serviceberry, chuckle-berry, currant-tree, [3] juneberry, shad-blow serviceberry, shad-blow, shadbush, shadbush serviceberry, sugarplum, thicket serviceberry) is a species of Amelanchier native to eastern North America in Canada from Newfoundland west to southern Ontario, and in the United States from Maine south to Alabama.
The Latin name sorbus is from a root for "red, reddish-brown" (PIE *sor-/*ser-); English sorb is attested from the 1520s in the sense "fruit of the service tree", adopted via French sorbe from Latin sorbum "service-berry". Sorbus domestica is also known as "whitty pear", the adjective whitty meaning "pinnate".