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Mountain Ash / Rowan Genus: Sorbus sp. aucuparia An article from "The Trees Of Old England" by Leo H. Grindon

Mountain Ash / Rowan Genus: Sorbus sp. aucuparia by Leo Hartley Grindon; Previously a Lecturer on Botany at the Royal School of Medicine, Manchester. Author of "Life: its Nature, Varieties, and Phenomena;" "British and Garden Botany;" " The Little Things of Nature;" "Echoes in Plant and Flower Life," and others.

Mountain Ash / Rowan Genus: Sorbus sp. aucuparia A Sketch of the aspects, associations and uses of Mountain Ash / Rowan Genus: Sorbus sp. aucuparia which constitute the forests and give effect to the scenery of Great Britain.

The mountain-ash must not be associated with the genuine ash. The name is a very unfortunate one, referring simply to the likeness, slight as it really is, between the leaves, and which consists in nothing more than in both being pinnately compound. "The mountain-ash is a near relative of the apple and pear. Hence we find in its blossoms the rosaceous type of corolla, while the fruit corresponds, in a certain measure, with that of the orchard, though in dimensions little more than a berry.

The charming spectacle which the flowers present in May, places this tree in the first rank of ornamental ones; and although for two or three months afterwards it makes no show, the delay is more than compensated by September, when the rich vermilion clusters attract the most incurious.

Mountain Ash / Rowan Genus: Sorbus sp. aucuparia An article from "The Trees Of Old England" continued...

Mountain Ash / Rowan Genus: Sorbus sp. aucuparia

"The mountain-ash No eye can overlook, when 'mid a grove' Of yet unfaded trees she lifts her head, Decked with autumnal berries, that outshine Spring's richest blossoms."

Are Rowan berries poisonous? - Are Mountain Ash berries poisonous?

These berries, popularly deemed poisonous, are perfectly free from hurtful properties. In the west and north of Scotland they are commonly converted into jelly for the breakfast-table; in Siberia likewise they are put to some such use. When carefully prepared, this jelly has a beautiful violet tinge.

Rowan, Sorbus aucuparia - fruits from August to November. Best in October - Recipe Rowan Jelly

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