Sorbus is the generic name given to which trees?
"and flexible wood has traditionally been used for woodworking. It is planted to fortify soil in mountain regions or as an ornamental tree and has several cultivars. The binomial name ""Sorbus aucuparia"" is composed of the Latin words ""sorbus"" for service tree and ""aucuparia"", which derives from the words ""avis"" for ""bird"" and ""capere"" for ""catching"" and describes the use of the fruit of ""S. aucuparia"" as bait for fowling. The plant is commonly known as rowan and mountain-ash, and has also been called Amur mountain-ash, European mountain-ash, quick beam, quickbeam, or rowan-berry. The names rowan and mountain ash may"
"some countries, but ""Sorbus domestica"", for example, has largely vanished from Britain, where it was traditionally appreciated. Natural hybrids, often including ""Sorbus aucuparia"" and the whitebeam, ""Sorbus aria"", give rise to many endemic variants in the UK. The traditional names of the rowan are those applied to the species ""Sorbus aucuparia"", ""Sorbus torminalis"" (wild service-tree), and ""Sorbus domestica"" (true service-tree). The Latin name ""sorbus"" was borrowed into Old English as ""syrfe"". The name ""service-tree"" for ""Sorbus domestica"" is derived from that name by folk etymology. The Latin name ""sorbus"" is from a root for ""red, reddish-brown"" (PIE ""*sor-/*ser-""); English ""sorb"""
"Sorbus domestica Sorbus domestica, with the common name service tree or sorb tree (because of its fruit), is a species of ""Sorbus"" native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa (Atlas Mountains), and southwest Asia (east to the Caucasus). It may be called true service tree, to distinguish it from wild service tree ""Sorbus torminalis"". It is a deciduous tree growing to 15–20 m (rarely to 30 m) tall with a trunk up to 1 m diameter, though it can also be a shrub 2–3 m tall on exposed sites. The bark is brown, smooth on young trees, becoming"
"of ultimately hybrid origin between ""Sorbus torminalis"" and various species in the subgenus ""Aria"" occur in Europe, including ""Sorbus latifolia"" (service tree of Fontainebleau), and ""Sorbus bristoliensis"" (Bristol whitebeam). Sorbus torminalis Sorbus torminalis, with common names wild service tree, chequers, and checker tree, is a species of ""Sorbus"" native to Europe from England and Wales east to Denmark and Poland, south to northwest Africa, and southeast to southwest Asia from Asia Minor to the Caucasus and Alborz mountains. It is a medium-sized deciduous tree growing to tall, with a trunk up to in diameter. The bark is smooth and greyish,"
"Sorbus torminalis Sorbus torminalis, with common names wild service tree, chequers, and checker tree, is a species of ""Sorbus"" native to Europe from England and Wales east to Denmark and Poland, south to northwest Africa, and southeast to southwest Asia from Asia Minor to the Caucasus and Alborz mountains. It is a medium-sized deciduous tree growing to tall, with a trunk up to in diameter. The bark is smooth and greyish, but flaky, peeling away in squarish plates to reveal darker brown layers. The leaves are long and broad with a petiole, dark green on both sides, with five to"
"is attested from the 1520s in the sense ""fruit of the service tree"", adopted via French ""sorbe"" from Latin ""sorbum"" ""service-berry"". ""Sorbus domestica"" is also known as ""whitty pear"", the adjective whitty meaning ""pinnate"". The name ""mountain-ash"" for ""Sorbus domestica"" is due to a superficial similarity of the rowan leaves to those of the ash, not to be confused in ""Fraxinus ornus"", a true ash that is also known as ""mountain ash"". ""Sorbus torminalis"" is also known as ""chequer tree""; its fruits, formerly used to flavour beer, are called ""chequers"", perhaps from the spotted pattern of the fruit. The name"
"Sorbus decora Sorbus decora, commonly known as the northern mountain ash, showy mountain-ash, or dogberry, is a deciduous shrub or very small tree native to northeastern North America. It occurs throughout the Laurentian Mixed Forest Province, the New England-Acadian forest region, and the eastern Canadian boreal forests. Showy mountain-ash grows tall. Its leaves are odd-pinnately compound, with 11–17 leaflets. Each leaflet is long and wide. All parts are hairless to slightly hairy. Flowers are borne in 125- to more than 400-flowered panicles across. Each flower is across and has five white petals long, 14–20 stamens, and carpels with 3–4 styles."
"larger forest trees. In Central Europe it often grows in association with red elderberry, goat willow, Eurasian aspen, and silver birch. The plant is highly flammable and tends not to accumulate plant litter. Other species of the genus ""Sorbus"" easily hybridize with ""S. aucuparia"" and hybrid speciation can result; hybrids include ""Sorbus × hybrida"", a small tree with oval serrated leaves and 2 to 3 pairs of leaflets, which is a hybrid with ""Sorbus × intermedia"", and ""Sorbus thuringiaca"", a medium-size tree with elongated leaves and 1 to 3 pairs of leaflets that are sometimes fused at the central vein,"
"not closely related to the true ash trees which belong to the genus ""Fraxinus"", although the leaves are superficially similar. As treated in its broad sense, the genus is divided into two main and three or four small subgenera (with more recent generic assignments in parentheses): ""Sorbus"" species are used as food plants by the larvae of some moth species—see list of Lepidoptera that feed on ""Sorbus"". ""Sorbus domestica"" is used to flavour some apple wines, see ""Apfelwein. ""Sorbus"" species are cultivated as ornamental trees for parks and gardens, and have given rise to several cultivars. The following, of mixed"
"Sorbus aria Sorbus aria (syn. ""Aria nivea""), the whitebeam or common whitebeam, is a European and Near-Eastern deciduous tree, the type species of the subgenus of the whitebeams. Typically compact and domed, with few upswept branches and almost-white underside of the leaves. It generally favours dry limestone and chalk soils. The hermaphrodite cream-white flowers appear in May, are insect pollinated, and go on to produce scarlet berries, which are often eaten by birds. Developed for garden use are the cultivars ""S. aria"" 'Lutescens', with very whitish-green early leaves, and ""S. aria"" 'Majestica', with large leaves. Both have gained the Royal"
"Several of the Asian species are widely cultivated as ornamental trees. North American native species in the subgenus ""Sorbus (Sorbus)"" include the American mountain-ash ""Sorbus americana"" and Showy mountain-ash ""Sorbus decora"" in the east and Sitka mountain-ash ""Sorbus sitchensis"" in the west. Numerous hybrids, mostly behaving as true species reproducing by apomixis, occur between rowans and whitebeams; these are variably intermediate between their parents but generally more resemble whitebeams and are usually grouped with them (q.v.). Rowans are excellent small ornamental trees for parks, gardens and wildlife areas. Several of the Chinese species, such as White-fruited rowan (""Sorbus glabrescens"") are"
"particularly birds in the winter and early spring. Sorbus decora Sorbus decora, commonly known as the northern mountain ash, showy mountain-ash, or dogberry, is a deciduous shrub or very small tree native to northeastern North America. It occurs throughout the Laurentian Mixed Forest Province, the New England-Acadian forest region, and the eastern Canadian boreal forests. Showy mountain-ash grows tall. Its leaves are odd-pinnately compound, with 11–17 leaflets. Each leaflet is long and wide. All parts are hairless to slightly hairy. Flowers are borne in 125- to more than 400-flowered panicles across. Each flower is across and has five white petals"
"midrib as separate leaflets. All three polyploid species are apomictic species which breed true without pollination. ""Sorbus"" × ""hybrida"" is grown as an ornamental tree in northern Europe, and is locally naturalised in the British Isles. The cultivar 'Gibbsii' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Sorbus × hybrida Sorbus ""×"" hybrida, the oakleaf mountain ash, Swedish service-tree or Finnish whitebeam, is a hybrid species of whitebeam native to Scandinavia in Norway, eastern Sweden, and southwestern Finland, and locally in the Baltic States in Latvia. It is a medium-sized deciduous tree growing to 10–15 m tall with"
"Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Sorbus aria Sorbus aria (syn. ""Aria nivea""), the whitebeam or common whitebeam, is a European and Near-Eastern deciduous tree, the type species of the subgenus of the whitebeams. Typically compact and domed, with few upswept branches and almost-white underside of the leaves. It generally favours dry limestone and chalk soils. The hermaphrodite cream-white flowers appear in May, are insect pollinated, and go on to produce scarlet berries, which are often eaten by birds. Developed for garden use are the cultivars ""S. aria"" 'Lutescens', with very whitish-green early leaves, and ""S. aria"" 'Majestica', with large"
"Rowan The rowans 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 mountains of western China and the Himalaya, where numerous apomictic microspecies occur. The name ""rowan"" was originally applied to the species ""Sorbus aucuparia"" and is also used for other species in ""Sorbus"" subgenus ""Sorbus"". Formerly, when a wider variety of fruits were commonly eaten in Europe and North America, ""Sorbus"" was a domestically used fruit throughout these regions. It is still used in"
"be applied to other species in ""Sorbus"" subgenus ""Sorbus"", and mountain ash may be used for several other distantly related trees. The species is unrelated to the true ash trees (genus ""Fraxinus""), which also carry pinnate leaves or the species ""Eucalyptus regnans"", also called mountain ash, native to Tasmania and Victoria in southeastern Australia. ""S. aucuparia"" was previously categorized as ""Pyrus aucuparia"". The author citation ""Sorbus aucuparia"" L. belongs to Carl Linnaeus. ""Sorbus aucuparia"" occurs as a tree or shrub that grows up to between 5 and 15 m in height. The crown is loose and roundish or irregularly shaped"
"over the ridges to Genoa. The following trees are predominant in the forests of Val Trebbia: ""Fagus silvatica"" at to ; over 1500 m: ""Sorbus aucuparia"", ""Sorbus aria"", ""Laburnum anagyroides"", ""Acer pseudoplatanus"", ""Abies alba"", ""Larix decidua"", ""Alnus incana"", ""Populus tremula""; below : ""Quercus cerris"", ""Quercus sessiflora"", ""Quercus pubescens"", ""Ostrya carpinifolia"", ""Carpinus betulus"", ""Fraxinus ornus"", ""Acer campestre"", ""Ulmus campestris"", ""Populus alba"", ""Populus canescens"", ""Alnus glutinosa"", ""Prunus avium"", ""Pirus communis"", ""Malus communis"", ""Corylus avellana""; below : ""Castanea sativa"". The shrubbery includes the following species: ""Juniperus communis"", ""Rubus fruticosus"", ""Rubus idaeus"", ""Polygala chamaebuxus"", ""Daphne mezereum"", ""Vaccinium myrtillus"", ""Cornus mas"", ""Euonymus europaea"", ""Cytisus sessilifolius"","
"Sorrel Common sorrel or garden sorrel (""Rumex acetosa""), often simply called sorrel, is a perennial herb in the family Polygonaceae. Other names for sorrel include spinach dock and narrow-leaved dock. It is a common plant in grassland habitats and is cultivated as a garden herb or salad vegetable (pot herb). Sorrel is a slender herbaceous perennial plant about high, with roots that run deep into the ground, as well as juicy stems and edible, arrow-shaped (sagittate) leaves. The leaves, when consumed raw, have a sour taste. The lower leaves are in length with long petioles and a membranous ocrea formed"
"Cerbera Cerbera is a genus of evergreen small trees or shrubs, native to tropical Asia, Australia, Madagascar,and various islands in the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean. Three trees of this genus are mangroves, ""Cerbera floribunda"", ""Cerbera manghas"" and ""Cerbera odollam"". The leaves are alternate and lack interpetiolar stipules. The tubular corollas are actinomorphic, i.e. they are symmetric and can be divided in halves along any diameter. All trees contain a white latex. The fruits are drupes. The genus is named after Cerberus because all its parts are poisonous : they contain cerberin, a cardiac glycoside, a substance that"
"Sapindus Sapindus is a genus of about five to twelve species of shrubs and small trees in the Lychee family, Sapindaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions in both the Old World and New World. The genus includes both deciduous and evergreen species. Members of the genus are commonly known as soapberries or soapnuts because the fruit pulp is used to make soap. The generic name is derived from the Latin words ""sapo"", meaning ""soap"", and ""indicus"", meaning ""of India"". The leaves are alternate, long, pinnate (except in ""S. oahuensis"", which has simple leaves), with 14-30 leaflets, the terminal"
"of the species exist. The leaves of the no parking whitebeam have more accentuated lobes than the Devon whitebeam, of which it was thought before to be a variety. The research project that named the tree as a species was led by Dr Tim Rich, head of vascular plants at the National Museum Wales, as well as academics from Bristol University, Exeter University, Oxford University and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The announcement of the species, and of thirteen other ""Sorbus"" species, was made in two papers in the BSBI's journal ""Watsonia"". Dr Rich stated that the trees, along with"
"Sorbus × hybrida Sorbus ""×"" hybrida, the oakleaf mountain ash, Swedish service-tree or Finnish whitebeam, is a hybrid species of whitebeam native to Scandinavia in Norway, eastern Sweden, and southwestern Finland, and locally in the Baltic States in Latvia. It is a medium-sized deciduous tree growing to 10–15 m tall with a stout trunk up to 60 cm in diameter, and grey bark. The crown is columnar or conic in young trees, becoming rounded with age, with branches angled upwards. The leaves are green above, and densely hairy with white hairs beneath. 7–12 cm long and 5–8 cm broad, the"
"Styrax ""Styrax"" (common names Storax or snowbell) is a genus of about 130 species of large shrubs or small trees in the family Styracaceae, mostly native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the majority in eastern and southeastern Asia, but also crossing the equator in South America. The resin obtained from the tree is called storax or benzoin (not to be confused with the ""Liquidambar"" storax balsam). The genus ""Pamphilia"", sometimes regarded as distinct, is now included within ""Styrax"" based on analysis of morphological and DNA sequence data. The spicebush (""Lindera benzoin"") is a different"
"the bark on old trees. The species has sometimes been placed in its own genus, ""Torminalis"". Recent molecular phylogenetics confirms an earlier taxonomic opinion that the genus ""Sorbus"" as defined in the broad sense is not monophyletic, but the simple-leafed species traditionally included in ""Sorbus"" are a monophyletic group; this species would be included in a clade called ""Aria"" (genus ""Aria"" or ""Sorbus"" subgenus ""Aria"") as the species ""Aria torminalis"" Beck. It is a sexually reproducing diploid species that forms diploid and polyploid hybrids with members of subgenus ""Aria"" (whitebeams). A number of often very localised stable apomictic polyploid species"
"Sorbus commixta Sorbus commixta, the , is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae, native to Japan, Sakhalin (in the Russian Far East), and the Korean island of Ulleungdo. The specific epithet ""commixta"" means ""mixed or mingled together"". Its Japanese name, """", literally means ""seven (times in the) stove"" and alludes to its sturdiness as firewood, as it does not get entirely consumed by the fire of a stove even after repeated use. It is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree growing to tall, rarely , with a rounded crown and brownish to silvery-grey bark. The leaves are"
"to about 12 metres height. The leaves are entire, lobed, are dark green above, underside has a dense layer of white hairs. It flowers at the end of May, they are white with 5 petals. The fruits ripen at the end of October. They are orange brown, and edible. Sorbus devoniensis Sorbus devonensis is known by the English name of Devon whitebeam and locally as otmast. It is a species of whitebeam tree in the family Rosaceae. It is endemic to the British Isles, growing wild only in areas of Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and Ireland. It did not exist before"
"by some commentators. In the Canadian provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador and Nova Scotia, this species is commonly referred to as a ""dogberry"" tree. In German, ""Sorbus aucuparia"" is known as the ""Vogelbeerbaum"" (""bird-berry tree"") or as ""Eberesche"". 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;"
"Sophora Sophora is a genus of about 45 species of small trees and shrubs in the pea family Fabaceae. The species are native to southeast Europe, southern Asia, Australasia, various Pacific islands, western South America, the western United States, Florida and Puerto Rico. The generic name is derived from ""sophera"", an Arabic name for a pea-flowered tree. The genus formerly had a broader interpretation including many other species now treated in other genera, notably ""Styphnolobium"" (pagoda tree genus), which differs in lacking nitrogen fixing bacteria (rhizobia) on the roots, and ""Dermatophyllum"" (the mescalbeans). ""Styphnolobium"" has galactomannans as seed polysaccharide reserve,"
"Sorbaria sorbifolia Sorbaria sorbifolia, the false spiraea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. The common name is also spelled false spirea. The plant is also known by its older names of ""Spiraea sorbifolia"" L. and ""Schizonotus sorbifolius"" (L.) Lindl. Other common names include false goat's beard, sorb-leaved schizonotus, and Ural false Spirea. . It is a deciduous shrub reaching 1 to 1.5 m. It bears compound, alternate, toothed leaflets which resemble ferns or sumac. Flowers are white and showy, clustered at the end of branches. ""Sorbaria sorbifolia"" grows naturally in temperate areas of Asia including Siberia,"
"tannin, and vitamin C. The seeds contain glycoside. ""Sorbus aucuparia"" has a chromosome number of 2""n""=34. ""Sorbus aucuparia"" is found in five subspecies: It can be found in almost all of Europe and the Caucasus up to Northern Russia and Siberia, but it is not native to Southern Spain, Southern Greece, Sardinia, the Balearic Islands, the Azores, and the Faroe Islands. The species was introduced as an ornamental species in North America. It is widespread from plains to mountains up to the tree line where it grows as the only deciduous tree species among krummholz. In the Alps it grows"
"Prosopis Prosopis is a genus of flowering plants in the pea family, Fabaceae. It contains around 45 species of spiny trees and shrubs found in subtropical and tropical regions of the Americas, Africa, Western Asia, and South Asia. They often thrive in arid soil and are resistant to drought, on occasion developing extremely deep root systems. Their wood is usually hard, dense and durable. Their fruits are pods and may contain large amounts of sugar. The generic name means ""burdock"" in late Latin and originated in the Greek language. ""Prosopis"" species have been found to contain 5-hydroxytryptamine, apigenin, isorhamnetin-3-diglucoside, l-arabinose,"
"comes from. This hardy tree is suitable for cultivation in parks and large gardens. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit. Sorbus forrestii Sorbus forrestii, Forrest’s rowan, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae, native to Western China. Growing to tall and broad, it is a spreading deciduous tree with leaves up to long, each divided into up to 19 leaflets (pinnate). White flowers in spring are followed by masses of white berries with pink tips in autumn. The Latin specific epithet ""forrestii"" honours the Scottish botanist and plant collector George Forrest (1873-1932),"
"Outside its native range, it is grown as an ornamental tree, hardy in zones 5-9. It grows best in moist, well-drained soil, in full sun. A number of cultivars have been selected, the most popular being 'Embley' (with fastigiate branching) and 'Serotina' (flowering later in early summer). 'Embley' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Sorbus commixta Sorbus commixta, the , is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae, native to Japan, Sakhalin (in the Russian Far East), and the Korean island of Ulleungdo. The specific epithet ""commixta"" means ""mixed or mingled together"". Its Japanese"