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Old 12-09-2006, 02:14 PM posted to sci.bio.botany
Jan De Laet Jan De Laet is offline
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Default is this Sorbus ?

Osiris,
All Sorbus I know have toothed leaflets or leaves. The leaves and the
fissured and coarse bark remind me of Robinia pseudoacacia. Did you
notice brown pods of roughly 5 to 10 cm long?
Best
-- Jan


wrote:
Is this some kind of Sorbus ?


http://www.terwiel.com/diversen/DSCN0650.JPG
http://www.terwiel.com/diversen/DSCN0651.JPG (tip of individual leaf)
http://www.terwiel.com/diversen/DSCN0654.JPG (this tree is drastically
trimmed. most trees around here have a more normal form: wide branches
etc)


No berries to be seen (september, the Netherlands)