Basisdaten
description:
The Service tree is native to a region of North Africa via Europe to the Caucasus. The fruits are edible cooked as jelly or compote. The wood is used in instrument making. The tree is found rarely, but it can be over 500 years old.
Tree profile
name botanical:
Sorbus domestica
other name:
True Service Tree
family:
Rose family (Rosaceae)
species:
deciduous tree
height:
up to 15 m (49 ft)
leaf:
The leaves of True Service tree are odd-pinnate with fine leaflets. The leaves are up to 25 cm (9.8 in) long with 13 – 21 serrated leaflets. The single leafs are 3 – 6 cm (1.2 – 2.4 in) long.
leaf shape:
imparipinnate
leaf margin:
serrated
leaf position:
alternate
fall foliage:
yellow
flowering:
May
blossom color:
white
blossom description:
The white flowers form luscious cymes. The fragrance is unpleasant.
gender distribution:
monoecious / hermaphrodite
fruit:
The fruit is apple to pear-shaped, brownish and reddish on the sunny side.
branches:
The branches are first gray-tomentose, later glabrous and red-brown. The buds are green, oblong ovate and pointed.
bark:
The bark is gray, small-scaly and flat-fissured.
root:
Deep-rooting plant
location:
Sun to half-shade
soil:
loamy to strong loamy
ph value:
neutral to strongly alkaline
usage:
single tree or planting in groups, landscape wood
