Scientific name: Sorbus hibernica E.F. Warb.
Common name: Irish Whitebeam
Description
Habit: A small deciduous tree or large shrub, to 6 m high.
Leaves: Alternate, undivided, with a stalk, with leafy stipules, oval, toothed with regular spreading teeth, hairless on upperside, pale grey and silky hairy lowerside, with 9-11 pairs of veins.
Flowers: White, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, 12-15 mm across, in compound corymbs; calyx of 5 sepals, persistent; petals 5, free; stamens 15-25; carpels 2-4, embedded in the calyx-tube and more or less fused to it; with hypanthium.
Fruits: A berry-like fruit, red, globular, 15 mm, with few lenticels.
Twigs: Grey-brown.
Bark: Grey-brown.
Habitat: Hedges, copses and woods.Distribution: Rather rare.
Native status: Native; endemic
Of conservation interest: Yes