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Handsome whitebeam having large silvery-white leaves with pronounced, rust coloured midribs and veins. Clusters of white flowers produced in early summer, followed by russet brown fruitlets. (E Himalaya)

Sorbus hupehensis

Tree Shape: Spreading

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(Hupeh Rowan) A medium deciduous tree forming a compact crown, with blue-green, pinnate leaves turning vivid red and orange in autumn. Large clusters of white berries start out pink before turning white. (China)

Sorbus hybrida L. ‘Gibbsii’

Tree Shape: Standard

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A medium-sized deciduous tree with a rounded crown, bearing dark green, lobed foliage with greyish-white hairs on the underside. Clusters of fluffy white flowers in spring followed by large, round, scarlet fruits.

Sorbus ‘Joseph Rock’

Tree Shape: Standard

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An outstanding tree with an upright compact shape renowned for its clusters of persistent, round, creamy yellow fruit, becoming orange-yellow as they ripen. Leaves turn red, orange and purple in the autumn. (China, 1932)

Sorbus ‘Matthew Ridley’

Tree Shape: Standard

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A strong, upright growing Mountain Ash with delicate lobed dark green leaves that turn lovely autumnal shades. Large bunches of oblong, orange-red berries in autumn, reminiscent of sargentiana. (UK)

Sorbus ‘Pink-Ness’

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Tree Shape: Standard

A broadly conical, deciduous tree with pinnate matt green leaves, turning orange and red in autumn. Clusters of white flowers in late spring are followed by unusual mauve pink fruits. (UK)

Sorbus ‘Rose Queen’

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Tree Shape: Standard

(S. com Embley x S. monbeigii) Small, upright tree with dark green, pinnate serrated leaves, turning orange and purple in autumn. Large clusters of bright rose-red berries follow the white spring flowers. (Hilliers, UK, 1963) A compact, upright tree of columnar habit with heavily veined grey-green leaves that appear to weep and twist revealing their white undersides. Clusters of creamy-white flowers followed by small brown fruits in autumn.

Sorbus hupehensis ‘Pink Pagoda’

Tree Shape: Spreading

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An outstanding form with blue-green, large, pinnate compound leaves, red twigs and petioles, and white flower clusters in spring. The persistent fruit is vivid pink slowly turning white by mid-winter.

Sorbus japonica

Tree Shape: Standard

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An attractive, naturally upright, rare tree with large oval leaves and young shoots beneath, covered in white downy film. It produces red fruits with brown speckles and good autumn tints. (Japan)

Sorbus ‘Leonard Messel’

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Tree Shape: Bushy

A small, oval-shaped tree with upright branches. Red winter buds and large leaves turn orange, gold and purple in autumn. Clusters of pink hanging fruit follow the white flowers in late spring and early summer. (1949)

Sorbus ‘Pink Pearl’

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Tree Shape: Standard

A small upright growing tree with pinnate, sharply toothed leaves that turn purple/bronze in the autumn. Clusters of heavily flushed and pink flecked white fruits in late summerautumn. (UK, 1958)

Sorbus pseudovilmorinii

Tree Shape: Bushy

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A small tree similar to Sorbus vilmorinii. The leaves are pinnate and almost fern like, green at first, turning to orange and red in the autumn. White blooms in late spring are followed by deep rose-red berries.

Sorbus rosea ‘Rosiness’

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Tree Shape: Bushy

A small tree of open habit with reddish bark and silvery markings. Dark green, pinnate leaves turn red in autumn. Amongst the largest berries of any of the pink berry rowans, changing colour from pale to deeper pink.