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|common_name=Service tree

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'''''Sorbus domestica''''' ('''Service Tree''', or sometimes '''True Service Tree''' to distinguish it from the [[Wild Service Tree]]; syn. ''Cormus domestica'' (L.) Spach) is a species of ''[[Sorbus]]'' native to western, central and southern [[Europe]], northwest [[Africa]] ([[Atlas Mountains]]), and southwest [[Asia]] (east to the [[Caucasus]]).<ref name=rotach>Rotach, P. (1995). Service tree ''Sorbus domestica'' Technical guidelines for genetic conservation and use. EUFORGEN. Available [http://www.bioversityinternational.org/publications/pdf/860.pdf online (pdf file)]</ref><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=watsonia>Hampton, M., & Kay, Q. O. N. (1995). ''Sorbus domestica'' L., new to Wales and the British Isles. ''[[Watsonia (journal)|Watsonia]]'' 20 (4): 379-384. Available [http://www.watsonia.org.uk/Wats20p379.pdf online (pdf file)]</ref><ref name=bsbi>Hampton, M. (1996). Sorbus domestica L. - comparative morphology and habitats. ''BSBI News'' 73.</ref>

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It is a [[deciduous]] [[tree]] growing to 15–20 m (rarely to 30 m) tall with a trunk up to 1 m diameter, though can also be a [[shrub]] 2–3 m tall on exposed sites. The [[bark]] is brown, smooth on young trees, becoming fissured and flaky on old trees. The winter buds are green, with a sticky resinous coating. The [[leaf|leaves]] are 15–25 cm long, [[leaf shape|pinnate]] with 13-21 leaflets 3–6 cm long and 1 cm broad, with a bluntly acute apex, and a serrated margin on the outer half or two thirds of the leaflet. The [[flower]]s are 13–18 mm diameter, with five white petals and 20 creamy-white stamens; they are produced in [[corymb]]s 10–14 cm diameter in late spring, and are [[plant sexuality|hermaphrodite]] and insect pollinated. The [[fruit]] is a [[pome]] 2–3 cm long, greenish-brown, often tinged red on the side exposed to sunlight; it can be either apple-shaped (f. ''pomifera'' (Hayne) Rehder) or pear-shaped (f. ''pyrifera'' (Hayne) Rehder).<ref name=rotach/><ref name=rushforth/><ref name=afm/><ref name=watsonia/>

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It is a long-lived tree, with ages of 300–400 years estimated for some in Britain.<ref name=watsonia/>

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Sorbus domestica, Linn. (Pyrus Sorbus, Gaertn. P. domestica. Smith. Cormus domestica, Spach). Service Tree. Fig. 3650. Round-headed tree, 30-60 ft. high: winter buds glutinous: petioles tomentose; lfts. 11-17, obovate-oblong to oblong, sharply and rather coarsely serrate, with acuminate teeth, usually entire near the base, green and glabrous above, floccose-tomentose beneath, at least when young, 1-2 1/2 in. long: fls. white, 1/2 in. across, in broadly pyramidal rather loose, tomentose corymbs: fr. 1/2 – 1 1/4 in. across, usually yellowish, with red or orange cheek, apple-shaped in var. maliformis, Lodd., pear-shaped in var. pyriformis, Lodd. May. S. Eu., N. Afr., and W. Asia.—This species is often confounded with the European mountain-ash, from which it is almost indistinguishable without frs. or fls., except by the glutinous winter buds.

Sorbus domestica, Linn. (Pyrus Sorbus, Gaertn. P. domestica. Smith. Cormus domestica, Spach). Service Tree. Fig. 3650. Round-headed tree, 30-60 ft. high: winter buds glutinous: petioles tomentose; lfts. 11-17, obovate-oblong to oblong, sharply and rather coarsely serrate, with acuminate teeth, usually entire near the base, green and glabrous above, floccose-tomentose beneath, at least when young, 1-2 1/2 in. long: fls. white, 1/2 in. across, in broadly pyramidal rather loose, tomentose corymbs: fr. 1/2 – 1 1/4 in. across, usually yellowish, with red or orange cheek, apple-shaped in var. maliformis, Lodd., pear-shaped in var. pyriformis, Lodd. May. S. Eu., N. Afr., and W. Asia. G.C. II. 1:283; 6:649. M.D.G. 1897:376-8. H.W.3,pp.80,81. G.W. 1,p. 158. —This species is often confounded with the European mountain-ash, from which it is almost indistinguishable without frs. or fls., except by the glutinous winter buds.

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==Gallery==

==Gallery==

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Image:Sorbus domestica.JPG|Foliage and fruit

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Image:Sorbus-domestica.jpg|Foliage and fruit

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Image:Sorbus-domestica-bark.jpg|Bark

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==References==

==References==

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