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Sorbus forrestii; photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SAKrzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sorbus forrestii McAll. & Gillham

Rosaceae · China South-Central

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Sorbus forrestii McAll. & Gillham: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, Mc All. & Gillham.

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Sorbus forrestii, photograph peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSorbus forrestii, photograph Leonora (Ellie) Enking, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSorbus forrestii, photograph Leonora (Ellie) Enking, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSorbus forrestii, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSorbus forrestii, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSorbus forrestii, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 7 photographs ›

Summary

Sorbus forrestii, commonly known as Forrest's rowan, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae, native to western China. Growing to 8 m (26 ft) tall and broad, it is a spreading deciduous tree with leaves up to 20 cm (7.9 in) long, each divided into up to 19 leaflets (pinnate). White flowers in spring are followed by masses of white berries with pink tips in autumn.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Sorbus forrestii", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Sorbus

Sorbus is a genus of over 100 species of trees and shrubs in the rose family, Rosaceae. Species of Sorbus (s.str.) are commonly known as rowan or mountain-ash. The genus used to include species commonly known as whitebeam, chequer tree and service tree that are now classified in other genera. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Sorbus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 2 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 2 of the 2 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“tree” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 2 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 2 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: peganum from Small Dole, England, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Leonora (Ellie) Enking, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3).

Other Sorbus 56 in the reference

Sorbus americana Sorbus americana American mountain-ash Photo: CC0, author not statedSorbus aucuparia Sorbus aucuparia Rowan Photo: CC BY, Chris Fluit Sorbus bissetii Rosaceae Sorbus californica Sorbus californica California mountain-ash Photo: CC BY, DenaSorbus cashmiriana Sorbus cashmiriana Kashmir Rowan Photo: CC BY-SA, AcabashiSorbus commixta Sorbus commixta Japanese rowan Photo: CC BY, Yoshihiro TokueSorbus decora Sorbus decora Northern mountain-ash Photo: CC BY, Eric LambSorbus discolor Sorbus discolor Rosaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, SalicynaSorbus eburnea Sorbus eburnea Rosaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz Sorbus fansipanensis Rosaceae Sorbus filipes Sorbus filipes Rosaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Averater Sorbus foliolosa Rosaceae all 57 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Pyrus china. (GBIF Backbone)

Under another author Sorbus prattii Hand.-Mazz. is an older name of this species, not Sorbus prattii, a species of the reference. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Rosaceae
Described by
McAll. & Gillham
Native to
China South-Central
Wild records
2 in range · 2 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF's key 3012624 is Sorbus forrestii Mc All. & Gillham; the page links Kew's Sorbus forrestii McAll. & Gillham, and the name is cited as Kew cites it
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-222 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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