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Sorbus frutescens is a small rowan-type shrub or very small tree from Gansu, China, reaching about 2 m, grown for its white berries and autumn colour. It is hardy and easy to grow in cool temperate gardens with full sun to partial shade.
Sorbus frutescens is a species of rowan native to Gansu province of China. Often mistakenly lumped in with Sorbus koehneana, it is a very small tree reaching only 2 m (6 ft 7 in) at maturity, with white fruit against dark green pinnate leaves which turn shades of red and bronze in autumn.
It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit as an ornamental.
Mountain Ash · Alniaria folgneri · Micromeles hemsleyi · Micromeles thibetica · American mountain-ash · Rowan · Kashmir Rowan · Japanese Rowan · Sorbus forrestii · Hedlundia intermedia · Sorbus poteriifolia · Sorbus pseudohupehensis
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Sorbus frutescens by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
