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.
- 2 Oct, 2010
Answers
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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I planted one last winter - Sorbus something-I'll-have-to-look-up
Sorbus aria - whitebeam!
2 Oct, 2010