Rowans, Whitebeams and Service Trees

For many years I have studied the wild service tree (Sorbus torminalis), mainly in Britain and Europe, and this has often included other members of the genus Sorbus. This weblog sets out to cover various aspects of these fascinating trees as they come up, or as I feel moved to write about them.

Saturday, 20 December 2014

The Arran endemics

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There is a useful article from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh by Max Coleman (18 December 2014), on the three Sorbus species endemic t...
Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Turkish delight from Sorbus torminalis

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Gozde Hasbal, Tugba Yılmaz Ozden and Ayse Can of the Department of Biochemistry, Istanbul University have published (2014) a research articl...
Wednesday, 30 July 2014

Whitebeam poem

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This was poem of the week in the Times Literary Supplement on 29th July 2014: Whitebeam The sixty-miles-per-hour plants, the growth th...
Saturday, 3 May 2014

Sorbus domestica in Cornwall

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There is an account in BSBI News No. 125 January 2014 pages 37-38 by Ian Bennallick and David Pearman of the discovery of the true service t...
Friday, 25 April 2014

New British Sorbi

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The April 2014 edition of the New Journal of Botany (Volume 4 Number 1) contains the following article: British Sorbus (Rosaceae): six new...
Monday, 7 January 2013

Sorbus as a colour

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Someone has named a colour 'Sorbus'.  It is a green with some black to darken it: http://www.colourlovers.com/color/708214/Sorbus ...
Monday, 31 December 2012

Reticulate evolution in Sorbus

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There is a paper in the American Journal of Botany for September 2012 by Durkovic et al. on the significance of leaf traits in the evolution...
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