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Sorbus meliosmifolia
Mountain Ash
Origin: Native to West China.
| Family |
| Rosaceae |
| Genus |
| Sorbus |
| Species |
| meliosmifolia |
| Category |
| Woody |
| Type |
| Tree (deciduous) |
| Synonyms |
| Aria meliosmifolia, Micromeles meliosmifolia, Pyrus meliosmifolia |
| USDA Hardiness Zone |
| 6 |
| Canadian Hardiness Zone |
| 7 |
| RHS Hardiness Zone |
| H7 |
| Temperature (°C) |
| to -23°C |
| Height |
| 8 - 10 m |
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Description and Growing Information
Flowering Period
| Cultivation |
| Grow in a sunny to half-shady situation on moist soil. |
| Habitat |
| Mountain valleys, and forests at 1400-2800 m. in north east Guangxi, western Sichuan, and north west Yunnan, China. |
| Bark/Stem Description |
| Trees to 10 m tall. Branchlets reddish brown or purplish brown when young, blackish brown when old. |
| Flower/Leaf Bud Description |
| Ovoid or narrowly ovoid, 6–8 mm, apex acute; scales several, reddish brown, glabrous. |
| Leaf Description |
| Simple; petiole 5–8 mm, glabrous or slightly puberulous; leaf blade greyish green abaxially, light green adaxially, narrowly elliptic-ovate to elliptic-obovate. |
| Flower Description |
| To 1 cm in diameter, hypanthium campanulate, yellow pubescent, sepals triangular-ovate, 2–4 mm, with an apex acute. |
| Fruit Description |
| Brown, subglobose or ovoid, 1–1.4 cm in diameter, glabrous when old, with many rusty small lenticels. |
| Notable Specimens |
| Trebah Garden Trust, Mawnan Smith, Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom. |
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