Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Sorbus domestica

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, near Collector, south of Goulburn

Fruit and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, near Collector, south of Goulburn

Tree. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, near Collector, south of Goulburn

Common name

Service Tree, Rowan

Family

Rosaceae

Where found

Garden escape. ACT. Occasionally Sydney and west to Bathurst. Rarely elsewhere.

Notes

Deciduous tree to 10 m high. Fruit fleshy. Bark smooth on young trees, becoming fissured, flaky, and shredding on old trees. Leaves alternating up the stems, 15–25 cm long, compound, with 13-21 leaflets each 3–6 cm long, 10–20 mm wide, lower surface hairy, becoming becoming hairless with age, margins toothed. Flowers white, 13–18 mm in diameter, with 5 petals. Flowers in often branched clusters about 10–14 cm diameter. Fruit greenish or brownish, often tinged red on the side exposed to sunlight, oval or pear-shaped, about 20 mm diameter. 

Family was Malaceae.

Pest plant ACT.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Sorbus~domestica (accessed 5 April 2021)

Wikipedia description:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbus_domestica (accessed 5 April 2021)