Sorbus takhtajanii
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Article from New Trees by John Grimshaw & Ross Bayton
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'Sorbus takhtajanii' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Other taxa in genus
- Sorbus alnifolia
- Sorbus americana
- Sorbus amoena
- Sorbus anglica
- Sorbus arachnoidea
- Sorbus aria
- Sorbus aucuparia
- Sorbus cachmiriana
- Sorbus caloneura
- Sorbus carmesina
- Sorbus chamaemespilus
- Sorbus commixta
- Sorbus coxii
- Sorbus cuspidata
- Sorbus decora
- Sorbus discolor
- Sorbus domestica
- Sorbus ellipsoidalis
- Sorbus epidendron
- Sorbus esserteauiana
- Sorbus fansipanensis
- Sorbus folgneri
- Sorbus foliolosa
- Sorbus forrestii
- Sorbus glabriuscula
- Sorbus glomerulata
- Sorbus gracilis
- Sorbus hajastana
- Sorbus helenae
- Sorbus × hostii
- Sorbus hupehensis
- Sorbus hybrida
- Sorbus hypoglauca
- Sorbus insignis
- Sorbus intermedia
- Sorbus japonica
- Sorbus 'Joseph Rock'
- Sorbus keissleri
- Sorbus khumbuensis
- Sorbus koehneana
- Sorbus kongboensis
- Sorbus kurzii
- Sorbus latifolia
- Sorbus lingshiensis
- Sorbus matsumurana
- Sorbus megalocarpa
- Sorbus meinichii
- Sorbus meliosmifolia
- Sorbus microphylla
- Sorbus minima
- Sorbus muliensis
- Sorbus olivacea
- Sorbus pallescens
- Sorbus parvifructa
- Sorbus pohuashanensis
- Sorbus poteriifolia
- Sorbus prattii
- Sorbus pseudohupehensis
- Sorbus pseudovilmorinii
- Sorbus randaiensis
- Sorbus reducta
- Sorbus rhamnoides
- Sorbus rinzenii
- Sorbus rubescens
- Sorbus rufopilosa
- Sorbus rushforthii
- Sorbus sambucifolia
- Sorbus sargentiana
- Sorbus scalaris
- Sorbus sitchensis
- Sorbus tamamschjanae
- Sorbus thibetica
- Sorbus × thuringiaca
- Sorbus tianschanica
- Sorbus torminalis
- Sorbus umbellata
- Sorbus ursina
- Sorbus vilmorinii
- Sorbus wallichii
- Sorbus wilsoniana
Tree to 7 m. Branchlets smooth, glabrous, with a few lenticels. Buds hairy, 0.5–0.7 cm long. Leaves 6.5–8.5 × 4.5–5.5 cm, rhombic to elliptical, upper surface glabrous, lower surface white-tomentose, six to seven secondary veins on each side of the midrib, craspedodromous, margins lobed, apex acute; petiole 1.5–2 cm long, pubescent. Inflorescence corymbose and pubescent. Flowers white, hermaphrodite; hypanthium shallowly turbinate, sepals acute and persistent, petals 0.5 cm long. Fruit orange or reddish, 1.1–1.2 × 0.9–1.1 cm, covered with lenticels. Flowering May to July, fruiting August to September (wild plants). Aldasoro et al. 2004. Distribution ARMENIA; AZERBAIJAN; IRAN; TURKEY. Habitat Mountain slopes and forest margins, between 1200 and 2200 m asl. USDA Hardiness Zone 5–6. Conservation status Not evaluated. Illustration More & White 2003.
Sorbus takhtajanii is represented in several British arboreta and is reasonably distinct on account of its dark green leaves with a bright white underside. The leaves are strongly toothed in their upper half. It is one of the Armenian species whose introduction is described above. All of them have proved to be relatively slow-growing, having champions of no more than 4–5 m (TROBI) as yet.