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Sorbus domestica

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.