Silvery mountain ash
Sorbus commixta · Rosaceae · 마가목
Look
- Leaves
- Alternate odd-pinnate compound leaves with 11 to 15 leaflets, ovate-lanceolate to narrow elliptic, with sharp teeth reaching almost to the base; the underside is whitish.
- Flowers
- In May to June hundreds of white flowers, 8 to 11 mm across, grow in compound corymbs at the tips of one-year-old twigs.
- Fruit
- The pome is nearly round to round, about 6 to 9 mm across, ripening in September to October to pale orange to red, smooth and glossy.
- Bark
- Dark gray-brown to gray; lenticels are prominent on young trees, and mature trees crack lengthwise and sometimes peel roughly. Winter buds are red to dark red, sticky or not.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Native (Korean Peninsula)
- Native to
- Russia (Sakhalin), Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu) and Korea (south of Hamgyeongbuk-do).