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By Macpat

Cheshire, United Kingdom

Hi folks. Can anyone tell me what this tree is please? From a distance it looks like a Rowan but up close is very different. As you can see, it has red berries and the leaves are very distinctive with a scolloped edge and the tree is of the same proportions as a Rowan.




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I planted one last winter - Sorbus something-I'll-have-to-look-up

Sorbus aria - whitebeam!

2 Oct, 2010

 

Thank you Beattie! It is a pretty tree. Several have been planted this year in our newly refurbished shopping precinct. How big do they grow? Could I plant one in a smallish garden?

2 Oct, 2010

 

I buy my trees here -

http://www.ashridgetrees.co.uk/Whitebeam-Sorbus-aria

It's described as medium sized, could be 8 metres tall in 10 years. I think it might be a bit big, though you know where you'd put it and how big "smallish" is.

A bit more digging makes me think that what you have is Swedish Whitebeam, Sorbus intermedia, as your leaves are more toothed.

http://www.trees-online.co.uk/swedish-whitebeam-tree-sorbus-intermedia-40cm-trees-free-mainland-delivery-except-scottish-highlands-p-117.html

Final height said to be 20 metres, so no, not really one for a smallish garden, I'd have said.

2 Oct, 2010

 

Thank you Beattie. I think I will plant one anyway. If it grows 8 metres in 10 years, I will be OK with that.

2 Oct, 2010

 

Not whitebeam, leaves too scalloped and too narrow. but it's probably S intermedia, as Beattie says. Look at Google images. Phil J

2 Oct, 2010

 

In my second answer I said it was Swedish whitebeam.

2 Oct, 2010

 

Thanks Beattie...I had already made a note before Philjeffs comment that it is Swedish Whitebeam.

3 Oct, 2010

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