Rowan

The rowans or mountain-ashes are shrubs or trees in genus Sorbus of family Rosaceae. They are native throughout the cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the highest species diversity in the mountains of western China and the Himalaya, where numerous apomictic microspecies occur. The name rowan was originally applied to the species Sorbus aucuparia, and is also used for other species in Sorbus subgenus Sorbus. Rowans are unrelated to the true ash trees, which belong to the genus Fraxinus, family Oleaceae, though their leaves bear superficial similarity.

Formerly, when a wider variety of fruits were commonly eaten in European and North American culture, Sorbus counted among the home fruits, though Sorbus domestica is all but extinct in Britain, where it was traditionally revered. Natural hybrids, often including Sorbus aucuparia and the whitebeam, Sorbus aria, give rise to many endemic variants in the UK.

Names

The traditional names of the rowan are those applied to the species Sorbus aucuparia, Sorbus torminalis (wild service-tree), and Sorbus domestica (true service-tree). The Latin name sorbus was loaned into Old English as syrfe. The name "service-tree" for Sorbus domestica is derived from that name by folk etymology. The Latin name sorbus is from a root for "red, reddish-brown" (PIE *sor-/*ser-); English sorb is attested from the 1520s in the sense "fruit of the service tree", adopted via French sorbe from Latin sorbum "service-berry". Sorbus domestica is also known as "Whitty Pear", the adjective whitty meaning "pinnate". The name "mountain-ash" for Sorbus domestica is due to a superficial similarity of the rowan leaves to those of the ash; not to be confused in Fraxinus ornus, a true ash that is also known as "mountain ash".Sorbus torminalis is also known as "chequer tree"; its fruits, formerly used to flavour beer, being called "chequers", perhaps from the spotted pattern of the fruit.

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Rowan (disambiguation)

Rowans are a genus (or subgenus) of deciduous trees in family Rosaceae that are notable for their red berries.

Rowan may also refer to:

Places

  • Rowan, Iran, a village in Hamadan Province, Iran
  • Rowan, Iowa
  • Rowan County, Kentucky
  • Rowan County, North Carolina
  • Fort Rowan, a historical fort that once existed in Craven County, North Carolina
  • Rowan, County Armagh, a townland in County Armagh, Northern Ireland

    • Fiction

  • The Rowan, a novel by Anne McCaffrey
  • Rowan of Rin, a series of five children's fantasy novels by Australian author Emily Rodda
  • Rowan Mayfair, a character in the Anne Rice Lives of the Mayfair Witches series of novels

    • Ships

  • HMS Rowan, a World War 1 Armed boarding steamer of the Royal Navy
  • HMS Rowan, a World War 2 Royal Navy Tree class trawler
  • USS Rowan (TB-8), a US Navy torpedo boat, 1899 to 1912
  • USS Rowan (DD-64), a US Navy destroyer commissioned in 1916
  • USS Rowan (DD-405), a US Navy destroyer commissioned in 1939, sunk by enemy action in September 1944
  • USS Rowan (DD-782), a US Navy destroyer commissioned in 1945
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    Rowan (name)

    Rowan is an Irish given name and surname. Variants of the name include Roan,Ruadhán (Irish), Ruadh (Irish). The name comes from the Irish surname Ó Ruadháin. It is also an Arabic feminine name referring to a river in Paradise.

    Surname

  • Andrew Summers Rowan (1857–1943), American army officer
  • Archibald Hamilton Rowan (1751–1834), Irish celebrity and founding member of The Dublin Society of United Irishmen
  • Athol Rowan (1921–1998), South African cricketer
  • Carl Rowan (born 1925-2000), American journalist and author
  • Sir Charles Rowan (c. 1782–1852), officer in the British Army and Commissioner of Police of the (London) Metropolis
  • Dan Rowan (died 1987), actor and comedian featured in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
  • Dave Rowan (1882–1955), Canadian baseball player
  • Dawn Rowan (born 1946), Australian therapist specialising in counselling adult survivors of childhood ritual, satanic, emotional, sexual and physical abuse
  • Dominic Rowan (born 1970), English actor
  • Ellis Rowan (1847–1922), Australia naturalist and illustrator
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