Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The tree species Sorbus americana is commonly known as the American mountain-ash. [4] It is a deciduous perennial tree, native to eastern North America. [5]The American mountain-ash and related species (most often the European mountain-ash, Sorbus aucuparia) are also referred to as rowan trees.
The rowans (/ ˈ r aʊ ə n z / ROW-ənz or / ˈ r oʊ ə n z / ROH-ənz) [1] or mountain-ashes are shrubs or trees in the genus Sorbus of the rose family, Rosaceae.They are native throughout the cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the highest species diversity in the Himalaya, southern Tibet and parts of western China, where numerous apomictic microspecies occur. [2]
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.The genus used to include species commonly known as whitebeam, chequer tree and service tree that are now classified in other genera (see below).
Green’s mountain ash (S. scopulina) is native to the mountains from Alaska to California, and east to the Rocky Mountains and Northern Great Plains. It grows as a multi-stemmed shrub that is ...
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.
Eucalyptus regnans, known variously as mountain ash (in Victoria), giant ash or swamp gum (in Tasmania), or stringy gum, [3] is a species of very tall forest tree that is native to the Australia states of Tasmania and Victoria. It is a straight-trunked tree with smooth grey bark, but with a stocking of rough brown bark at the base, glossy green ...
The common name of the species honors American botanist Edward Lee Greene. [5] Throughout the Cascade Mountains and the Pacific Northwest portions of its habitat, it is commonly called Cascade mountain-ash, sometimes listed as Sorbus scopulina var. cascadensis. [6]
Thorpdale Tree Mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans) 114.3 375 Australia Thorpdale, Victoria: Note: Standing height measured at 112.8 metres (370 feet) by theodolite in 1880 by a surveyor. The tree was later felled in 1881, remeasured on the ground by chain at 114.3 metres (375 feet) in length by same surveyor. [44] [45] Klinki (Araucaria ...