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Scientific Name
Sorbus domestica L.
Family
Rosaceae (Queensland, the ACT, Victoria, Tasmania, Western Australia and South Australia)
Malaceae (New South Wales)
Common Names
service tree, service-tree, servicetree, sorb apple, sorb apple tree, wild service tree
Origin
Native to north-western Africa (i.e. Algeria), western and southern Europe (i.e. France, Spain, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania, Yugoslavia and southern Ukraine) and western Asia (i.e. Cyprus, Turkey and south-western Russia).
Naturalised Distribution
Locally naturalised in some parts of south-eastern Australia (i.e. in the coastal districts of central New South Wales and in the ACT).
Also widely naturalised in North America.
Notes
Service tree (Sorbus domestica) is regarded as an environmental weed in the ACT.
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