Swedish Whitebeam - Sorbus intermedia
Medium sized tree to 15 metres, the leaves elliptical, pinnately lobed to halfway dark green above, pale yellowy green beneath. Flowers dull white in dense flattish heads. Berry scarlet when ripe.
Usually planted in Britain on roadside verges etc.
May and June.
Deciduous - Most trees are probably mature examples of unrecorded planting.
Widespread but scattered in Britain, probably mostly from planting.
Uncommon in Leicestershire and Rutland where most specimens are probably the result of unrecorded planting. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 6 of the 617 tetrads.
Saharima Roenisch
Leicester Spinney Hill Park
08 August 2019
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Orchard Way, Wymeswold
04 August 2021 junction B4114 and Sharnford Road Sapcote SP 4933 9250 (taken 22.5.2008).JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
22 May 2008
flowers
Saharima Roenisch
Knighton Park
20 September 2020
Saharima Roenisch
Leicester Spinney Hill Park
08 August 2019
Alan Semper
Melton Priors Cl
03 September 2020
 junction B4114 and Sharnford Road Sapcote SP 4933 9250 (taken 22.5.2008).JPG)
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Species profile
- Common names
- Swedish Whitebeam
- Species group:
- Trees, Shrubs & Climbers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Rosales
- Family:
- Rosaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 45
- First record:
- 19/09/2007 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 14/05/2025 (Pugh, Dylan)
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Orchard Way, Wymeswold
04 August 2021
Saharima Roenisch
Leicester Welford Road Cemetery
15 September 2020
Saharima Roenisch
Leicester Welford Road Cemetery
15 September 2020
Saharima Roenisch
Knighton Park
20 September 2020
David Nicholls
Fosse Meadows
08 July 2011
Graham Calow
Broughton Astley Brick Quarry
02 July 2020
Saharima Roenisch
Soar-GUC, Abbey Park to Belgrave
10 September 2020
Alan Semper
Melton Priors Cl
03 September 2020. B4114 junction with Sharnford Road Sapcote SP 4933 9250 (taken 5.10.2007).JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
05 October 2007, B4114 junction with Sharnford Road Sapcote SP 4933 9250 (taken 19.9.2007).....JPG)
Graham Calow
Sapcote
19 September 2007
fruit (berries)
Graham Calow
Broughton Astley Brick Quarry
02 July 2020
. B4114 junction with Sharnford Road Sapcote SP 4933 9250 (taken 5.10.2007).JPG)
, B4114 junction with Sharnford Road Sapcote SP 4933 9250 (taken 19.9.2007).....JPG)
Parornix scoticella
The larva of the moth Parornix scoticella feeds on Rowan and Whitebeam and occasionally on Apple. A blotch is formed in the leaf which turns brown, and the larva pupates in a folded portion of the leaf.
Bucculatrix bechsteinella
Bucculatrix bechsteinella is a small moth with a wingspan of 7 to 9 mm. It is pale buff with brown markings. The leafmine produced by the larva is usually on Hawthorn, and is small and in a vein axil, with blackish frass. The exit gallery is clear, and angular in shape.
Pear Leaf Blister Moth
The larva of the Pear Leaf Blister Moth (Leucoptera malifoliella) makes a distinctive round blotch leafmine in a leaf of Apple, Hawthorn or Pear with a spiral frass pattern in concentric rings, sometimes several mines in one leaf.