I just bought a little tree with the label: 'Sorbus khumbiensis' from a tree nursery.
I tried a google-search with this name but couldn't find anything nor in the Plant files.
On the label it further says Chinees mountain-ash, is small-leaved and has pink berries in autumn and can reach a height of 6 m.
A detail of the leaf;
Another of the small-leaved Asian rowans, looks closely related to S. microphylla and S. vilmorinii.
Esveld stock it, and show it as having red berries: http://www.esveld.nl/htmldiaen/s/sokhum.htm
AHA! the sci name above has a typo in it, I guessed it should perhaps be Sorbus khumbuensis, after the Khumbu Valley (below Mt Everest in Nepal) . . . sure enough, that returns rather more google hits, including some from botanical databases, such as here:
http://www.bgbm.org/IOPI/GPC/PTaxonDetail.asp?NameId=400054107&PTRefFk=19
It is a new species described by Hugh McAllister (the world expert on rowans). Since it is not from China, better to call it Khumbu Rowan (not 'Chinese' as Esveld give).
Resin
Thanks Resin,
The typo fault is not mine but from the nursery.
Thanks for the link also, just a pity there are no images available on the web of a mature one.
Hi Bonitin,
The typo fault is not mine but from the nursery
I thought your plant looked simular to my Sorbus hupehensis 'Pink Pagoda'. khumbuensis, hupehensis - rather close in spelling.
Hi Growin,
That doesn't look like Sorbus hupehensis you have there! Compare it with this: http://forum.garten-pur.de/attachments/777Sorbus_hupehensis.jpg
Resin
Well, gee - that does look quite different. It has been in a 1 gallon pot for a very long time. Here's the tag but I can't make it out. It does look very much like bonitin's plant.
Hi Growin,
Had a look through the photos in Rushforth's tree guide (he's a close associate of McAllister and also an expert on rowans); the closest matches for yours are S. rufopilosa and S. microphylla.
S. rufopilosa: http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200011713 pic: http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=48912&flora_id=2
S. microphylla: http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242411073
Resin
I seem to recall this one came from UBC Botanical Garden and their data shows a few: http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/collections/data/list.php?colltext=sorbus&filter=0&strictness=0
but, it's like someone kinda knew the species name and sorta scribbled it so you couldn't quite read it. For some reason I recall the other label in the pot had 'Pink Pagoda' on it but it sure doesn't look like it.
What do you think the label says?
Hi Growin,
your plant does look similar to mine, but it looks like nurseries are not all that reliable in their labeling, like Resin shows in that link about your Sorbus and like I also have found out too often.
Looks like a rather hastily scribbled "hupensis" on the label to me. I can't make any full real name out of it. I wonder if there's been a label switch at any point?
Resin
