Hedlundia hybrida

Hedlundia hybrida, formerly known as Sorbus hybrida and commonly called the Swedish service-tree or oakleaf mountain-ash, is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree of the family Rosaceae native to northern Europe, particularly Scandinavia and the Baltic region, where it grows on rocky slopes, coastal cliffs and open mixed woodland. It is an apomictic species of hybrid origin between Sorbus aucuparia and a whitebeam, typically reaching 4 to 12 metres in height with a slender rounded crown and smooth grey bark that becomes shallowly fissured with age. The alternate, petiolate leaves are distinctive in being pinnately lobed only at the base, with one or two pairs of free leaflets toward the petiole and the upper part of the leaf forming a single deeply lobed blade 7 to 12 centimetres long, dark green above and densely white-tomentose beneath. White five-petalled flowers about 1 centimetre across are borne in dense compound corymbs in late spring. The fruit is a small bright red subglobose pome 10 to 14 millimetres in diameter, ripening in autumn.