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'''''Sorbus latifolia''''' (the '''service tree of Fontainebleau'''; French: ''alisier de Fontainebleau'') is a species of [[whitebeam]] that is [[endemism|endemic]] to the area around [[Fontainebleau]], south of [[Paris]] in France, where it has been known since the early eighteenth century.<ref name=rushforth>Rushforth, K. (1999). ''Trees of Britain and Europe''. Collins ISBN 0-00-220013-9.</ref><ref name=afm>Mitchell, A. F. (1974). ''A Field Guide to the Trees of Britain and Northern Europe''. Collins ISBN 0-00-212035-6</ref><ref name=afm2>Mitchell, A. F. (1982). ''The Trees of Britain and Northern Europe''. Collins ISBN 0-00-219037-0</ref> It is a medium-sized [[deciduous]] [[tree]] that grows to between ten and twenty metres tall, with a trunk up to sixty centimetres in diameter. The [[leaf|leaves]] are five to ten centimetres long and broad (rarely, up to 20 cm long and 12 cm broad), but, most typically, the leaves are approximately as broad as they are long. (''Latifolia'' is the Latin word for 'broad-leaved'.) They are green above, downy with greyish-white hairs beneath, with six to ten small triangular teeth along each margin. The [[flower]]s are between one centimetre and 1.5 centimetres in diameter, with five creamy-white petals and yellowish stamens; they are produced in [[corymb]]s about eight centimetres in diameter in mid-spring. The [[fruit]] is a globular, dull brownish-red, [[pome]] of ten to twelve millimetres diameter, dotted with large pale lenticels, ripening in late autumn.<ref name=rushforth/><ref name=afm/><ref name=afm2/> The tree is of [[Hybrid (biology)|hybrid]] origin, between ''[[Sorbus torminalis]]'' (wild service tree) and a member of the ''[[Sorbus aria]]'' (whitebeam) group, but it exhibits [[apomixis]] and breeds true from seed.<ref name=rushforth/> Its edible fruit was sold in open-air markets at Fontainebleau until the 1950s. {{Inc| Sorbus latifolia, Pers. (Pyrus rotundifolia, Bechst. P.intermedia var. latifolia, Ser. P. Aria var. latifolia, Hort. Torminaria latifolia, Dipp. S. Aria x S. torminalis). Tree, attaining 50 ft., similar to the preceding: lvs. broadly ovate to ovate, usually rounded at the base, pinnately lobed with short, broadly triangular, sharply serrate lobes, and with 6-9 pairs of veins, grayish or whitish tomentose beneath, 2 1/2 - 4 in. long; petioles l/2 - l in. long: fls. about 1/2 in. across, in broad, tomentose corymbs: fr. globose or globose-ovoid, about 1/2 in. high, orange to brownish red. May, June. Occasionally occurring in Cent. Eu. {{SCH}} }} ==Cultivation== ===Propagation=== ===Pests and diseases=== ==Varieties== ==Gallery== <gallery perrow=5> Image:Upload.png| photo 1 Image:Upload.png| photo 2 Image:Upload.png| photo 3 </gallery> ==References== <references/> <!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 --> <!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 --> <!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 --> ==External links== *{{wplink}} {{stub}} __NOTOC__
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