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- proper noun A taxonomic
species within thegenus Sorbus —rowan , European rowan,mountain ash .
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Sorbus aucuparia is far better known in the UK as “Mountain Ash” or less commonly as “Rowan”.
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Sorbus aucuparia is far better known in the UK as “Mountain Ash” or less commonly as “Rowan”.
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On land the succession is from shore meadows through herb-rich scrub with sea buckthorn Hippophaë rhamnoides and a continuous belt of grey alder Alnus incana, through rowan Sorbus aucuparia, aspen Populus tremula and birch Betula spp. to climax forest dominated by Norway spruce Picea abies and other conifers.
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