A very hardy street tree, tolerant of pollution in cities and one of few broadleaves to thrive in Shetland. A neophyte to Britain (introduced 1789) and Ireland.

Native to Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Widely established across Britain, but occasional in Ireland, especially as a street tree and in gardens.

Syn. *Sorbus intermedia*. A tetraploid apomict.

Small (15m), short-trunked, with upright sinuous branches. Bark grey, smooth, maturing fissured. Twigs grey-brown; buds ovoid-acute, white-haired. Leaves 5-10cm, elliptic, lobed (to halfway to the midrib at the centre) with rounded tips and forward-pointing shallow teeth, distinctively toothless on the lobe sides, with 12-17 veins, dark green above, green-white downy below, on a 13-33mm petiole. Flowers cream-white (13-17mm) with yellow anthers in a dense 9cm corymb (May-June). Fruit a small pome (10-13mm), orange ripening red, with sparse or absent lenticels, in clusters.