Aria (Pers.) Host

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Credits

Article from New Trees by John Grimshaw & Ross Bayton

Recommended citation
'Aria' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/aria/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

Family

  • Rosaceae

Common Names

  • Whitebeams

Synonyms

  • Sorbus subgen. Aria Pers.

Glossary

campanulate
Bell-shaped.
corymbose
In form of corymb.
hypanthium
Cup-shaped or tubular structure at the base of a flower (‘floral cup’) formed by enlargement of the receptacle and/or the bases of the floral parts.
ovoid
Egg-shaped solid.
section
(sect.) Subdivision of a genus.
simple
(of a leaf) Unlobed or undivided.
tomentum
Dense layer of soft hairs. tomentose With tomentum.

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Credits

Article from New Trees by John Grimshaw & Ross Bayton

Recommended citation
'Aria' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/aria/). Accessed 2024-03-28.

(See also discussion for Sorbus.)

Aria contains numerous species, ranging from tall trees to shrubs, often with smooth, pale bark. It is characterised by ovoid, conical buds with many spirally arranged scales and simple, toothed leaves which have a persistent white or greyish tomentum beneath. Inflorescences are corymbose. The flowers are white, 2– to 5-merous, and with a campanulate hypanthium. The fruits (pomes) are red, and the seeds are round in cross-section. The embryos of these seeds contain germination inhibitors as they do not germinate on excision.. The type species of the genus is Aria edulis (Willd.) M. Roem., best known as Sorbus aria (L.) Crantz, the Whitebeam.

As a native genus Aria occurs throughout western Europe from the Canary Islands to the Caucasus, and the Atlas Mountains of north-west Africa. The breeding systems in Aria are just like those in Sorbus s.s., as outlined under Sorbus.