| General Information |
| Common Name | True Service Tree |
| Scientific Name | Sorbus domestica |
| Sun Tolerance | Full Sun |
| Height | 15 - 20 m (48-65 ft) |
| Spread | 6 -8 m (20 - 30 ft) |
| Growth Rate | Fast |
| Bloom Time | Spring |
| Color | Green, |
| Flower Color | White |
| Type | Tree |
| Native | Asia, Europe, USA. |
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| Classification |
| Kingdom | Plantae – Plants |
| Subkingdom | Tracheobionta – Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | Spermatophyta – Seed plants |
| Division | Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants |
| Class | Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | Rosidae |
| Order | Rosales |
| Family | Rosaceae – Rose family |
| Genus | Sorbus L. – Mountain Ash |
| Species | S. domestica |
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| Sorbus domestica - True Service Tree |
Sorbus domestica commonly called True Service Tree. It is native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa and southwest Asia. This is a long living tree, with ages of 300 – 400 years.
It is a deciduous tree. It is growing to 15–20 m (48 – 65 ft) in height. Sometime reach to 30 m (99 ft) and trunk up to 1 m diameter. The bark is brown, smooth on young trees, becoming fissured and flaky on old trees. In the winter buds are green, with a sticky resinous coating. The leaves are 15–25 cm long, pinnate with 13-21 leaflets 3–6 cm long and 1 cm broad, with a bluntly acute apex, and a serrated margin on the outer half or two thirds of the leaflet. It blooms white flowers in spring. The flowers are 13–18 mm diameter, with five petals and 20 stamens; they are produced in corymbs 10–14 cm diameter in and are hermaphrodite and insect pollinated. The fruit is a pome 2–3 cm long, greenish-brown, often tinged red on the side exposed to sunlight. The fruits looks like a apple-shaped or pear-shaped.
Fruits, seeds and wood of True Service Tree can be widely used for food production, pharmaceutics, cosmetics and craftsmanship. It is also plants for landscaping in the park or beside the road.
2 comments:
Hello,
I study true service trees for a number of years because these are beautiful trees. Can you give us the location(s) of the trees that are represented here? I suppose they are in England: this is to prepare a journey to admire them not only on pictures. I have already found 2 such trees (as of today in the internet) in London, a place named Clapton Square.
Arnould, France
This is a very good article. It is too bad Service tree is so hard to find, if you want to buy one. When you do, they are sold out. It is a very interesting tree indeed. Onegreenworld had them, they they are sold out.
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