Swedish rowan (whitebeam) seeds

Swedish rowan (whitebeam) / Sorbus intermedia - is a fast growing plant. The annual growth is 40 cm in height and 30 cm in width. Swedish mountain ash usually lives from 70 to 100 years.

It is distinguished by a smooth gray and usually short trunk. The crown is dense, openwork, regular oval or pyramidal shape. Its diameter is about 5-7 m. The main branches are directed vertically. As the tree matures, the crown becomes more rounded.

Young shoots are pubescent, but then become bare. Their color is brown or grey. Horizontal or curved but not overhanging.

The leaves of Scandinavian mountain ash in a broad sense do not quite correspond to the description that is considered traditional in relation to mountain ash. They are entire, ovate or oblong-ovate, symmetrical, shallow-lobed, rough, pubescent on the underside, consist of 5-9 oval leaflets, the top of the leaf fuses into a single lobe. The length of the leaves is about 12 cm. They are shiny from above, painted dark green, and grayish below due to pubescence.

If you look at the tree from afar, then its foliage seems silvery. However, the decorativeness of the leaves does not end there, but, on the contrary, in the fall it gains new momentum or, in other words, enters its peak: during this period, the foliage of the Swedish mountain ash turns yellow or orange-red.