"Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote

Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
Bob Hobden wrote:
This is obviously an escaped garden plant but it's high up just off the
Winlatter Pass in the Lake District and on the banks of a mountain
stream. Those a glossy pinky berries.....what is it?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bobhob...57649073279758



Caveats as already given by other people, but I'd lean towards Sorbus
glabriuscula (Sorbus hupehensis hort.) which can have white or pinkish
berries.

There are lots of different rowans grown, but the 5 that turn up
reasonably commonly are Sorbus aucuparia (both the red-berried wild form
and the orange-berried cultivar), Sorbus cachemiriana (large white
berries), Sorbus glabriuscula (pinkish white berries), Sorbus 'Joseph
Rock' (pale orange berries), and one with large clusters of small red
berries which I haven't put a name to (probably Sorbus commixta or
Sorbus sargentiana).

Can you give a more precise location, so I can pass the details on to
the country recorder?

BTW, the "flowering" fir trees are probably Picea sitchensis (Sitka spruce)
and the ones on the way to Spout Force Picea abies (Norway spruce) and
Larix (larch).


Larch! Left our car parked under one during a night, don't think I will ever
get all the spines out of the nooks and crannies no matter how often I wash
it.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
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