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The Latin name sorbus was borrowed into Old English as syrfe. 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 ...
Sorbus aucuparia, commonly called rowan (/ ˈ r oʊ ən /, [3] also UK: / ˈ r aʊ ən /) and mountain-ash, is a species of deciduous tree or shrub in the rose family. The tree has a slender trunk with smooth bark, a loose and roundish crown, and its leaves are pinnate in pairs of leaflets on a central vein with a terminal leaflet.
Sorbus is a genus of over 100 species of trees and shrubs in the rose family, Rosaceae.Species of Sorbus are commonly known as rowan or mountain-ash.Currently, species commonly known as whitebeam, chequer tree and service tree are classified in other genera (see below), so that genus Sorbus includes only the pinnate leaved species of former subgenus Sorbus.
Sorbus scopulina, also known as Greene's mountain-ash, is a North American species of rowan within the rose family. Although it may resemble poisonous species of baneberries , its own fruits are edible.
Aronia melanocarpa, called the black chokeberry, is a species of shrubs in the rose family native to eastern North America, ranging from Canada to the central United States, from Newfoundland west to Ontario and Minnesota, south as far as Arkansas, Alabama, and Georgia. [1]
The whitebeams are members of the family Rosaceae, tribe Malinae, comprising a number of deciduous simple or lobe-leaved species formerly lumped together within Sorbus s.l. Many whitebeams are the result of extensive intergeneric hybridisation involving the genera Sorbus (Sorbus aucuparia in particular), Aria, Torminalis and Chamaemespilus.
The following species are recognised in the genus Sorbus, many of which are called rowans or mountain-ashes: [1] This list follows a narrow definition of genus Sorbus; species that have been moved to the genera Aria, Torminalis, Cormus, Chamaemespilus, Hedlundia, Scandosorbus, Karpatiosorbus, Mayovskya and Normeyera are not listed.
Sorbus densiflora (Spach) Heynh. Aronia arbutifolia , called the red chokeberry , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] is a North American species of shrubs in the rose family . It is native to eastern Canada and to the eastern and central United States, from eastern Texas to Nova Scotia inland to Ontario , Ohio , Kentucky , and Oklahoma .