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Sorbus torminalis (L.) Crantz (Wild Service-tree)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #macrophotos
Sorbus torminalis Plant 16 October 1999 Berks England 3
Sorbus torminalis Plant 15 October 1997 Berks England 7

Suggested Literature

Sorbus torminalis may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
PLANTAE
(plants)
SPERMATOPHYTA
(vascular plants)
MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Associated with Sorbus torminalis:

is parasitised by Phyllactinia mali - a conidial powdery mildew (Erysiphales: Erysiphaceae) Foreign Ing, B., 1990
leaf leaf is galled by Sappaphis aucupariae (Homoptera: Aphididae) Restricted Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986
shoot (decaying) decaying shoot may contain larva Rhynchites caeruleus - Apple Twig Cutter, Twig Cutting Weevil (Coleoptera: Rhynchitidae) Morris, M.G., 1990
Bullock, J.A., 1992
Photos trunk (dead) dead trunk is decayed by fruitbody Inonotus hispidus - Shaggy Bracket (Hymenochaetales: Hymenochaetaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos trunk (live) live trunk is parasitised by fruitbody Inonotus hispidus - Shaggy Bracket (Hymenochaetales: Hymenochaetaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Sorbus torminalis may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)
MAGNOLIIDAE
(dicotyledonous flowering plants)
ROSACEAE
(roses and fruit trees)
Sorbus
(whitebeams)

References

Bullock, J.A., 1992 Host Plants of British Beetles: A List of Recorded Associations
Ing, B., 1990 An Introduction to British Powdery Mildews
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota
Morris, M.G., 1990 Orthocerous Weevils
Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986 Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls

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