Scientific name: Sorbus aucuparia L.
Common name: Rowan, Mountain Ash
Description
Habit: A small deciduous tree, to 18 m high, crown oval and dense, often with multiple trunks.
Leaves: Alternate, stalked, with leafy stipules, pinnate, with about 15 lanceolate and toothed leaflets.
Flowers: White, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, 6-9 mm across, numerous in compound corymbs; calyx of 5 sepals; petals 5, free; stamens 15-25; carpels 2-4, embedded in the calyx-tube and more or less fused to it; with hypanthium.
Fruits: Numerous berry-like fruits in a cluster, red.
Twigs: Brown.
Bark: Smooth, grey.
Habitat: Woods, scrub, rocky ground, mountain cliffs and ravines, on lake islands.Distribution: Occasional to rare.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No