Korean mountain ash
Sorbus alnifolia · Rosaceae · 팥배나무
Look
- Leaves
- Alternate simple leaves, ovate to broadly elliptic, 8.5 to 12.8 cm long, with irregular double teeth reaching almost to the base; the underside is slightly whitish.
- Flowers
- In late April to May, 5 to 22 white flowers, 10 to 23 mm across, bloom in corymbs at the tips of one-year-old twigs.
- Fruit
- The pome is long elliptic to nearly globose, about 7 to 11 mm long, ripening deep red or red in September to October, with a smooth surface and lenticels.
- Bark
- Trunk is gray-brown to gray; young trees have white lenticels, and mature trees are shallowly fissured vertically.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Native
- Native to
- China (north, northeast and south), Japan and Korea.