Need help with tree ID

[Steve Bullman]

Trying to remember where I even took this photo. This threads 6 years old!!!

[David Humphries]

Ah, the lovely Dagmar, now that was a blast from the past

 

 

 

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[John Hancock]

Ah, the lovely Dagmar, now that was a blast from the past

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Is he not around these days...?

[David Humphries]

Is he not around these days...?

 

Who knows where the artist formely known as 'Dagmar' lurks these days

 

 

 

Ya well John?

 

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[jwade]

Hi Steve,

We have one here in the whole of Worcester so guess it must make it pretty rare!

 

Indeed we do have one in Worcester, right behind the cathedral tucked away.. Although a few months back I noticed the scaffolders knackering the branches and causing quite a bit of compaction around the root plate.

 

I have grown plants from this tree in Malvern, infact there are two forms, s. domestica f. pyrifera and pomifera.

 

It's one of those trees that's a bit of a mystery when encountered, with pinnate foliage like a rowan but large apple/pear like fruits and rougher bark.

 

Also it's uncertain whether it is truly native, there are thought to be some truly 'wild' populations near Barry on limestone cliff in Wales - these trees are literally clinging on (as most endemic sorbus seem to be). These ones have been found to be at least 400 years, there are other populations in Gloucestershire and along the Glamorgan coastline.

 

The Wyre forest is famed for having a large tree that was vandalised and later replanted.

 

Lovely thing though, beautiful fruits and cracking autumn colour and should be sought out and planted more often.