SORBUS 



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fixom*. rujjra. 



Cy d a ri\ d j dporcica 



3.5-5 cm. in diameter, yellowish green, fragrant: j a p o n i c a, Japanese. 

 Native of Japan. Used as an ornamental shrub in parks and gardens. 

 Adapted for borders or shrubberies, and low ornamental hedges. Flowers 

 in April and May. 



Sorbus L i n n e 1753 Mountain Ash 

 (L. sorbus, the service-tree) 



Shrubs or trees with alternate, simple or compound leaves, stipules 

 deciduous; flowers white, in terminal compound cymes; calyx 5-lobed, 

 tube urn-shaped; petals 5, spreading, short-clawed; stamens numerous; 

 ovary inferior ; styles usually 3, distinct ; ovules 2 in each cell ; fruit a 

 small berry-like pome, red. 



A genus of about 7 species, natives of the north temperate zone. Three 

 species occur in North America. The genus is hardly separable from 

 Pyrus and should probably only be regarded as a section of the latter. 



