Wild service tree
Sorbus torminalis
HighClimax
Production
A patient long-term anchor prized for fine cabinet timber and wildlife fruit — slow to reward you, so plant it for the next generation, not this one.
Tolerances & traits
- Strata
- High
- Lifecycle
- Climax
- Soil preference
- Loam, Rocky, Clay
- Soil pH range
- 6 – 8
- Min. temperature
- -30°C
- Min. rainfall
- 550 mm/year
- Wind tolerance
- Medium
- Frost tolerance
- High
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Irrigation needed
- Low
How to manage it
A patient long-term timber and fruit tree; give it a light formative prune when young then leave alone, it resents heavy cutting.
Watch out for
Very slow to establish and fruit; fruits are astringent and inedible until bletted (softened by frost/storage).
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