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|familia=Rosaceae
 
|familia=Rosaceae
|genus=Sorbus  
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|genus=Sorbus
|species=aucuparia  
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|species=aucuparia
 
|common_name=European mountain ash, Mountain ash, Rowan
 
|common_name=European mountain ash, Mountain ash, Rowan
 
|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
 
|name_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
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|origin=Europe, northern Asia
 
|lifespan=perennial
 
|lifespan=perennial
 
|life_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
 
|life_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
|exposure=sun
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|exposure=sun, part-sun
 
|features=flowers
 
|features=flowers
 
|flower_season=early spring, mid spring, late spring
 
|flower_season=early spring, mid spring, late spring
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|usda_ref=Flora - A Gardener's Encyclopedia
 
|max_zone=9
 
|max_zone=9
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|image=Sorbus-aucuparia.JPG
 
|image_width=240
 
|image_width=240
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|image_caption=Rowan growing with [[Mountain Pine]] on a mountainside in the Italian Alps
 
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'''''Sorbus aucuparia''''' ('''Rowan''', '''European Rowan''', '''Mountain ash''', or '''European mountain ash'''), is a species of the genus [[Sorbus]], native to most of [[Europe]] except for the far south, and northern [[Asia]]. In the south of its range in the [[Mediterranean region]] it is confined to high altitudes in mountains.<ref name=rushforth>Rushforth, K. (1999). ''Trees of Britain and Europe''. Collins ISBN 0-00-220013-9.</ref><ref name=dvf>Den Virtuella Floran: [http://linnaeus.nrm.se/flora/di/rosa/sorbu/sorbaucv.jpg ''Sorbus aucuparia'' map]</ref>
| name = ''Sorbus aucuparia''
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| common_names = Rowan, European Rowan
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Sometimes called "[[Mountain Ash]]",<ref name=vedel>Vedel, H., & Lange, J. (1960). Trees and Bushes in Wood and Hedgerow. Methuen & Co Ltd.</ref><ref name=arkive>Arkive: [http://www.arkive.org/species/ARK/plants_and_algae/Sorbus_aucuparia/more_info.html Rowan (''Sorbus aucuparia'')]</ref> ''Sorbus'' is unrelated to the true [[Fraxinus|Ash tree]] though the leaves are superficially similar. 
| growth_habit = Tree
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| high = 8-20m
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It is a small to medium-sized [[deciduous]] [[tree]] typically growing to 8–10 m tall, more rarely 20 m, and exceptionally to 28 m.<ref>Tree Register of the British Isles</ref> The [[bark]] is smooth, silvery grey of young trees, becoming scaly pale grey-brown and occasionally fissured on old trees. The shoots are green and variably hairy at first, becoming grey-brown and hairless; the buds are conspicuous, purple-brown, and often densely hairy. The [[leaf|leaves]] are [[pinnate]], 10–22&nbsp;cm long and 6-12&nbsp;cm broad, with 9–19 (most often 13–15) leaflets; each leaflet is 3–7&nbsp;cm long and 15–23&nbsp;mm broad, with a coarsely serrated margin; they are variably hairy, particularly the petiole and leaf veins on the underside. The [[plant sexuality|hermaphrodite]] [[flower]]s are produced in large terminal [[corymb]]s 8–15&nbsp;cm diameter with up to 250 flowers, the individual flowers 1&nbsp;cm diameter, with five creamy-white [[petal]]s, and are insect pollinated. The [[fruit]] is a small [[pome]] 6–9&nbsp;mm (rarely up to 14&nbsp;mm) diameter, green at first, ripening bright red in late summer, and containing up to eight (most commonly two) small [[seed]]s. It is [[diploid]], with a [[chromosome]] count of 2''n''=34.<ref name=rushforth/><ref name=tfl>Trees for Life Species Profile: [http://www.treesforlife.org.uk/tfl.rowan.html Rowan]</ref><ref name=fnwe>Flora of NW Europe: [http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/BIS/flora.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=2736 ''Sorbus aucuparia'']</ref>
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| origin = Europe, northern Asia
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| lifespan = 50-100 years
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| exposure = full sun, part-sun
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| features = flowers, fruit
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| hardiness = -50°C
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| bloom = mid to late spring
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| color = IndianRed
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| classis = Rosidae  <!--- Class -->
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| ordo = Rosales  <!--- Order -->
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| familia = Rosaceae  <!--- Family -->
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| genus = Sorbus
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Rowan is a small to medium-sized [[deciduous]] [[tree]] typically growing to 8–10 m tall, more rarely 20 m, and exceptionally to 28 m. The [[bark]] is smooth, silvery grey of young trees, becoming scaly pale grey-brown and occasionally fissured on old trees. The shoots are green and variably hairy at first, becoming grey-brown and hairless; the buds are conspicuous, purple-brown, and often densely hairy. The [[leaf|leaves]] are pinnate, 10–22 cm long and 612 cm broad, with 9–19 (most often 13–15) leaflets; each leaflet is 3–7 cm long and 15–23 mm broad, with a coarsely serrated margin; they are variably hairy, particularly the petiole and leaf veins on the underside. The [[flower]]s are hermaphrodite, produced in large terminal [[corymb]]s 8–15 cm diameter with up to 250 flowers, the individual flowers 1 cm diameter, with five creamy-white [[petal]]s, and are insect pollinated. The [[fruit]] is a small [[pome]] 6–9 mm (rarely up to 14 mm) diameter, green at first, ripening bright red in late summer, and containing up to eight (most commonly two) small [[seed]]s.
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Widely grown as an ornamental tree in northern Europe, more locally in northern North America, where also sometimes naturalised.
    
==Cultivation==
 
==Cultivation==
Widely grown as an ornamental tree in northern Europe, more locally in northern North America, where also sometimes naturalised.
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Rowan is very tolerant of cold and is often found at high altitude on mountains; in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] it occurs at up to 1 000 m altitude, higher than any other tree, and in [[France]] up to 2 000 m.<ref name=arkive/><ref name=tfl/><ref name=afm2>Mitchell, A. F. (1982). ''The Trees of Britain and Northern Europe''. Collins ISBN 0-00-219037-0</ref>
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It is very tolerant of a wide range of soil conditions, including thin acid soils and cracks in cliffs. It also fairly frequently grows as an [[epiphyte]] in clefts or cavities of larger trees such as [[Scots Pine]]s, though epiphytic specimens rarely have growing conditions adequate for them to reach maturity.<ref name=tfl/>
    
===Propagation===
 
===Propagation===
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==Gallery==
 
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File:Sorbus aucuparia Wilde lijsterbes bloeiwijze.jpg| photo 1
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File:Sorbus aucuparia 01 - Orange.jpg| photo 2
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*Trees for Life Species Profile: [http://www.treesforlife.org.uk/tfl.rowan.html Rowan]
 
*Trees for Life Species Profile: [http://www.treesforlife.org.uk/tfl.rowan.html Rowan]
 
*Flora of NW Europe: [http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/BIS/flora.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=2736 ''Sorbus aucuparia'']
 
*Flora of NW Europe: [http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/BIS/flora.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=2736 ''Sorbus aucuparia'']
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<!--- xxxxx  *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381  -->
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<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
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<!--- xxxxx  *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608  -->
    
==External links==
 
==External links==
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