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habit (Photo: Rob and Fiona Richardson)
habit (Photo: Rob and Fiona Richardson)
once-compound leaves (Photo: Rob and Fiona Richardson)
close-up of leaf showing sharply-toothed leaflets (Photo: Rob and Fiona Richardson)
old leaves and cluster of mature fruit (Photo: Rob and Fiona Richardson)
close-up of bright red mature fruit (Photo: Rob and Fiona Richardson)
Scientific Name
Sorbus aucuparia L.
Family
Rosaceae (Queensland, the ACT, Victoria, Tasmania, Western Australia and South Australia)Malaceae (New South Wales)
Common Names
common rowan, common mountain ash, European mountain ash, European mountain-ash, European mountainash, European rowan, mountain ash, quickbeam, rowan, rowan ash, rowan berry, rowan tree, rowan-berry, sorb apple, witchbane, witchwood
Origin
Native to Europe and western Asia (i.e. Lebanon, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan and western Russia).
Naturalised Distribution
This species is locally naturalised in the cooler parts of south-eastern Australia. It is sparingly naturalised in Victoria and south-eastern South Australia. It is possibly also naturalised in Tasmania, southern New South Wales ands the ACT.
Widely naturalised elsewhere in the world, including in large parts of North America.
Notes
Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) is regarded as an emerging or potential environmental weed in the ACT, Tasmania and Victoria.
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