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Wild Service-tree - Sorbus torminalis
Tree to 25 metres but often less. Leaves with three or four pairs of triangular lobes, green on both surfaces but hairy beneath when young. Flowers 10 to 15 mm with two styles, white. The fruit is a brown berry which is finely dotted.
Tree to 25 metres but often less. Distinctive leaves with three or four pairs of triangular lobes, green on both surfaces but hairy beneath when young. Flowers 10 to 15 mm with two styles, white. The fruit is a brown berry which is finely dotted.
In flower during May and June.
Deciduous.
Infrequent but widespread in England and Wales.
Scarce as a native tree in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 5 of the 617 tetrads.
It is occasionally planted
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Species profile
- Common names
- Wild Service-tree
- Species group:
- Trees, Shrubs & Climbers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Rosales
- Family:
- Rosaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 22
- First record:
- 15/05/2015 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 05/09/2023 (Higgott, Mike)
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