Cormus domestica

Cormus domestica, <a href="/facts/Common_name/3KNNezEU">commonly known</a> as service tree or sorb tree, is a species of tree native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa (<a href="/facts/Atlas_Mountains/qN0j2DDy">Atlas Mountains</a>), and southwest Asia (east to the <a href="/facts/Caucasus/sE8P8Ejg">Caucasus</a>). It may be called true service tree, to distinguish it from <a href="/facts/Sorbus_torminalis/QK8zrqdM">wild service tree</a>. It is the only species in the <a href="/facts/Monotypic/QvoM9aGP">monotypic</a> genus Cormus.

It is a <a href="/facts/Deciduous/7jQHVtdd">deciduous</a> <a href="/facts/Tree/HVVn3srN">tree</a> growing to 15–20 m (49–66 ft) (rarely to 30 m or 98 ft) tall with a trunk up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) diameter, though it can also be a <a href="/facts/Shrub/X1gKVxL5">shrub</a> 2–3 m (6.6–9.8 ft) tall on exposed sites. The <a href="/facts/Bark_(botany)/vdL49ec1">bark</a> is brown, smooth on young trees, becoming fissured and flaky on old trees. The winter buds are green, with a sticky resinous coating. The <a href="/facts/Leaf/1m6wCNTg">leaves</a> are 15–25 cm (5.9–9.8 in) long, <a href="/facts/Leaf_shape/GfSyEn7C">pinnate</a> with 13–21 leaflets 3–6 cm (1.2–2.4 in) long and 1 cm (0.39 in) broad, with a bluntly acute apex, and a serrated margin on the outer half or two thirds of the leaflet. The <a href="/facts/Flower/7gI5Kefw">flowers</a> are 13–18 mm (0.51–0.71 in) diameter, with five white petals and 20 creamy-white stamens; they are produced in <a href="/facts/Corymb/IERjACuJ">corymbs</a> 10–14 cm (3.9–5.5 in) diameter in late spring, and are <a href="/facts/Plant_sexuality/Up20kQT3">hermaphrodite</a> and insect pollinated. The <a href="/facts/Fruit/PBpuzk60">fruit</a> is a <a href="/facts/Pome/X5BLQAAp">pome</a> 2–3 cm (0.79–1.18 in) long, greenish-brown, often tinged red on the side exposed to sunlight; it can be either apple-shaped (f. pomifera (Hayne) Rehder) or pear-shaped (f. pyrifera (Hayne) Rehder).

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Cormus domestica