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The pair climbed high into the rowan tree to eat the sweetest berries, then rested in the tree afterwards. This was in violation of the advice of Aengus , the god of love, who had warned the couple that they should "not sleep in a cave with one opening, or a house with one door, or a tree with one branch, and that they would never be able to ...
Sorbus koehneana, also known as Koehne mountain ash, is a species of rowan native to central and southeast China and Qinghai. [2] [3] It is found in mixed forests or thickets in mountains 2,300 to 4,000 m above sea level. [4] The species epithet is named after Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne, a late 19th century German botanist.
As treated in its broad sense, the genus is divided into two main and three or four small subgenera: Sorbus (Sorbus). now genus Sorbus s.s., are commonly known as the rowan (primarily in the UK) or mountain-ash (in Ireland, North America and the UK), with compound leaves usually hairless or thinly hairy below; fruit carpels not fused; the type is Sorbus aucuparia (European rowan).
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.
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 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 ...
Sorbus esserteauana, commonly known as Esserteau's rowan, is a species of rowan. It is a small tree, typically 5–10 metres (16–33 ft) tall growing in mountain thickets and cliffs. It is an endemic species to China, being only found in western Sichuan. It has small white flowers and small red berries that are actually a pome fruit. [1]
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 fruit. [4] They were eaten by Native Americans and early settlers, and be cooked and made into jelly.