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The latter is a compound of the name of the ash tree (Esche) with what is contemporarily the name of the boar (Eber), but in fact the continuation of a Gaulish name, eburo-(also the name for a dark reddish-brown colour, cognate with Greek orphnos, Old Norse iarpr "brown"); like sorbus, eburo-seems to have referred to the colour of the berries ...
The berries of American mountain-ash are eaten by numerous species of birds, including ruffed grouse, ptarmigans, sharp-tailed grouse, blue grouse, American robins, other thrushes, waxwings, jays, and small mammals, such as squirrels and rodents. [10] American mountain-ash is a preferred browse for moose and white-tailed deer.
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.
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 ...
Mountain Ash, a native tree in the Southeastern mountains, puts on a wonderful late-season show. It's a slender, native tree in the Southeastern mountains, found only at relatively high altitudes. ...
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.
Mountain Ash may refer to: Places. Mountain Ash, Rhondda Cynon Taf, a town in Wales Mountain Ash railway station; Mountain Ash RFC, a rugby union club;
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.