CATTON ARBORETUM

Sorbus aucuparia Joseph Rock

Common name: Mountain Ash or Rowan

Year planted: 2012

Country of origin: Europe and Asia

Year introduced: Seed was collected in 1932 in China by the plant hunter Joseph Rock

Description: Rowans can reach 20m in ideal locations but much less in exposed places like this. An environmentally useful tree which produces a valuable crop of berries in early winter which are taken by birds. Joseph Rock produces yellow berries in the autumn

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Tree number: 103
Sorbus aucuparia Joseph Rock (Mountain Ash or Rowan)