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Scientific name:

Sorbus domestica

Vernacular name:

Service-tree


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Service-tree

Scientific name: Sorbus domestica L.

Diagnostic features
Tree to 23m.
Trunk deeply and closely fissured.
Leaves pinnate, with 6-8 pairs of leaflets.
Styles 5(-6).
Fruit 20-25mm across, obovoid or pear-shaped, greenish-brown, sometimes red-tinged, with numerous large lenticels, with groups of gritty stone-cells.

Chromosome number: (2n=34).

Habitat
Probably native.

Distribution
In 3 sites on limestone sea-cliffs in Glam, first found 1983, as stunted (to 3(5)m) rarely fruiting plants; planted and sometimes self-sown in a few places in South England, odd specimens possibly native in West Gloucs and formerly Worcs.

This species is keyed out on Page 2480 in the Text Key.

Sorbus domestica (Service-tree)
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