Scientific name: Sorbus intermedia (Ehrh.) Pers.
Common name: Swedish Whitebeam
Description
Habit: A small deciduous tree, to 10 m high, sturdy.
Leaves: Alternate, stalked, with leafy stipules, lowerside greyish hairy, rounded at the base, oval to oblong, with large and deep lobes at least near the base, with 7-9 pairs of veins.
Flowers: White, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, in compound corymbs; calyx of 5 sepals; petals 5, free, about 6 mm; 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, with few lenticels, longer than wide, 12-15 mm.
Twigs: Grey-brown.
Bark: Grey-brown, smooth, becoming slightly rough when older.
Habitat: Roadsides, embankments.Distribution: Naturalised in some quantity on one site near Galway.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No