''Sorbus californica'', the California mountain ash,
is an
aggregate species of
rowans native to western
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...
. The tree or bush is found in the mountains of California as the name suggests, but is not an ash, and this plant is sometimes cultivated. It has orange-red fruit and compound leaves (many leaflets) that are toothed almost from base to apex, but is said to be most often confounded with the western North American species ''
S. sitchensis'' which has pinkish fruit and leaflets with few teeth.
[
Image:Sorbus_fruit_comparison.jpg, ''S. californica'' fruits (left) are apple-shaped; ''S. aucuparia'' fruits for comparison are conical at the stem end
Image:Sorbus_californica_leaf.jpg, The individual leaflets are toothed almost from base to apex
]
References
californica
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