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Scientific name:

Sorbus torminalis

Vernacular name:

Service-tree, Wild


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Scientific name: Sorbus torminalis (L.) Crantz

Diagnostic features
Tree to 27m.
Leaves broadly ovate, 0.9-1.3x as long as wide, with triangular acute lobes divided up to 1/2 way to midrib, slightly pubescent on lowerside.
Fruit 12-16mm, brown, longer than wide, with numerous large lenticels.
Styles 2, fused to c.1/2 way.

Chromosome number: (2n=34).

Habitat
Native; woods, scrub and hedgerows mostly on clay or limestone.

Distribution
Throughout most of England and Wales, but local.

This species is keyed out on Page 2482 in the Text Key.

Hybrids
- See Sorbus vagensis(x) Wilmott(= Sorbus aria x Sorbus torminalis).
- Sorbus porrigentiformis x Sorbus torminalis has been reported from West Gloucs; endemic.

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