DWARF ROWAN
Sorbus reducta
Rose Family [Rosaceae] 
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| 1st Aug 2011, a garden, Fife, Scotland | Photo: © John Brailsford |
| A shrub, rather than a tree, reaching a height of about 2 feet. |
| 1st Aug 2011, a garden, Fife, Scotland | Photo: © John Brailsford |
| Like many, but not all, Rowans, it has red berries in late summer. |
| 1st Aug 2011, a garden, Fife, Scotland | Photo: © John Brailsford |
| The above berries are on the pinkish side of red. |
| 1st Aug 2011, a garden, Fife, Scotland | Photo: © John Brailsford |
| The leaves are pinnate, with about five sets of opposing leaflets, and a teminating leaflet on the end. The leaflets attach directly to the stem without stalks, but where they do there is a brown discolouration. |
| 1st Aug 2011, a garden, Fife, Scotland | Photo: © John Brailsford |
| The leaves have a shiny sheen, and coarsely toothed only at or from the widest part, with tips of teeth browning slightly. Deep grooves pattern the surface into a set of small cells, with a further indentation in the middle. Leaf stems are deeply grooved into a 'V'-shape. Leaves turn a scarlet red in autumn of similar shade to the berries. |
| 6th Oct 2011, a garden, Fife, Scotland | Photo: © John Brailsford |
| In autumn the leaves turn scarlet red, but the berries begin to turn a whitish pink. (Leaves of a conifer behind). |
| 6th Oct 2011, a garden, Fife, Scotland | Photo: © John Brailsford |
Berries now similar in colour to those of Vilmorin's Rowan or of Hubei Rowan; white fllushed pink. |
| 6th Oct 2011, a garden, Fife, Scotland | Photo: © John Brailsford |
| Leaves first turn a muddy green as both the green chlorophyll pigments and the red pigments conspire to produce the muddy greeny/brown colour (leaves bottom right), but then the chlorophyll dissipates allowing the scarlet red colours to dominate. |
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Rose Family [Rosaceae]
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