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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 discoloration.


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.


Some similarities to : other Rowan Trees but this one is very short and shrub-like.

No relation to : Dwarf Birch, Dwarf Cornel, Dwarf Cotoneaster, Dwarf Juniper, Dwarf Mountain-pine, Dwarf Cherry, Dwarf Willow, Dwarf Elder [other trees with similar names].


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DWARF ROWAN

Sorbus reducta

Rose Family [Rosaceae]

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