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Sorbus aria (L.) Crantz

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Description: 1. Branchlet with flowering leafy shoot from a spur (l - l'). Flowers are bisexual and arranged in large, branched corymbs. - 2. Ripe pomes on a leafy spur with bud at k. - 3. Seed. - 4. Long winter-branchlet; buds are alternate, densely hairy at first; the terminal bud is the largest. - 5. Section of a winter-branchlet with spurs ending in a terminal bud (k). After Hempel & Wilhelm, 1889. Photos and explanations from the book: Zelimir Borzan. "Tree and Shrub Names in Latin, Croatian, English, and German, with synonyms", University of Zagreb, 2001.
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Image location: , Croatia

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Name: Zelimir Borzan
Organization: University of Zagreb
Country: Croatia

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