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The best-known species is the European rowan Sorbus aucuparia, a small tree typically 4–12 metres (13–39 ft) tall growing in a variety of habitats throughout northern Europe and in mountains in southern Europe and southwest Asia.
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.
Species of Sorbus (s.l.) are commonly known as whitebeam, rowan, mountain-ash and service tree. The exact number of species is disputed depending on the circumscription of the genus, and also due to the number of apomictic microspecies , which some treat as distinct species, but others group in a smaller number of variable species.
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 common name of this species is named in honor of American botanist Edward Lee Greene. [2] Throughout the Cascade Mountains and the Pacific Northwest portions of this rowan's habitat, it is commonly called Cascade mountain-ash, sometimes listed as Sorbus scopulina var. cascadensis. [3] Various birds and mammals, including bears, eat the ...
Sorbus oligodonta is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree growing to 5–15 m tall, with a rounded crown and dark grey bark.The leaves are green to glaucous blue-green above, paler beneath, 10–26 cm long, pinnate with 9-17 oval leaflets 3–5.5 cm long and 1–2 cm broad, broadest near the middle or apex (hence the English name 'kite-leaf'), rounded at the end with a short acuminate apex ...
Hedlundia pseudomeinichii, known as false rowan [2] and Catacol whitebeam, is a rare species of tree endemic to the Isle of Arran in south-western Scotland.It is believed to have arisen as a hybrid of the native European rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) and the cut-leaved whitebeam (Hedlundia pseudofennica) which is in turn a rowan/Arran whitebeam (Hedlundia arranensis) hybrid. [3]
Sorbus commixta, the Japanese rowan, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae, native to central and eastern China, Korea, Japan, and Sakhalin (in the Russian Far East). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]