European Mountain Ash
Sorbus aucuparia · Rosaceae · 유럽당마가목
Look
- Leaves
- Pinnately compound leaves 13-23 cm long with 9-15 leaflets, giving good fall color.
- Flowers
- White flowers in terminal corymbs up to 15 cm long, with an unpleasant smell.
- Fruit
- Small pomes about 8 mm across ripen bright red-orange.
- Bark
- Young bark is light gray, smooth or slightly rough; old trees turn dark gray, rough, cracked and slightly scaly.
Where it grows
- Native to
- Native to Europe and western Asia.
- Ecology
- The fruit attracts birds.