Chinese Rowan - Sorbus glabriuscula
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Chinese Rowan - Sorbus glabriuscula | dylan | Rodway Hill | 20 Nov 2022, 10:12 p.m. | 20 Nov 2022, 2:58 p.m. | |
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Chinese Rowan - Sorbus glabriuscula | dylan | Rodway Hill | 20 Nov 2022, 10:12 p.m. | 20 Nov 2022, 2:58 p.m. | |
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Chinese Rowan - Sorbus glabriuscula | dylan | Rodway Hill | 20 Nov 2022, 10:12 p.m. | 20 Nov 2022, 3:07 p.m. | |
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Chinese Rowan - Sorbus glabriuscula | dylan | Rodway Hill | 20 Nov 2022, 10:12 p.m. | 20 Nov 2022, 3:07 p.m. |
Species Description
Stace 4:
Sorbus glabriuscula McAll. (S. hupehensis auct. non. C.K. Schneid.) - Chinese Rowan.
Tree to 17m; leaves pinnate, with 5-8 pairs of leaflets; styles 4-5; fruit 6-8 x 7-8mm, more or less globose, white usually with pink tinge at apex, without lenticels, without groups of gritty stone-cells; (2n=68). Neophyte-naturalised; rough ground, cliffs, woods; scattered in South England, spreading by suckers and seed in a few places; China. The familiar garden plant wrongly known as S. hupehensis. Leaflets are much more obscurely serrate and much less pointed at apex than in S. domestica or S. aucuparia.
Key:
- Buds tomentose, not sticky, brown; trunk smooth, becoming fissured with age; fruits 6-12 x 7-14mm, white to pink, scarlet or yellow
- Fruits white, often pink at apex; leaflets rounded to obtuse at apex