Scientific name: Sorbus aria (L.) Crantz.
Common name: Whitebeam
Description
Habit: A small deciduous tree, to 15 m high, crown wide and dense.
Leaves: Alternate, stalked, with leafy stipules, densely white hairy on underside, elliptic to oval, as long as wide, the sides curved, 10-14 pairs of veins, undivided, toothed with teeth swept towards the teeth.
Flowers: White, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, 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: A red berry-like fruit, ovoid, 8-15 mm, with few lenticels.
Twigs: Grey.
Bark: Grey, shallowly fissured when older.
Habitat: Woods, copses and limestone pavement.Distribution: Abundant near Galway and in the N.E. Burren, rare elsewhere.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: Yes