| Description | Blackhawk Mountain Ash (Sorbus aucuparia) A Mountain Ash cultivar that is resistant to sun scald and other disease. |
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| Pronunciation | (Sor-bus) (aw-ku-PA-ria) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Trees Deciduous |
| Hardiness Zone | 3 |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | prefers average to moist conditions, avoid hot dry sites |
| Soil & Site | average, best in well drained acidic soils |
| Flowers | white, mid to end of May, malodorous, borne on flat top corymbs. |
| Fruit | roundish orange to red pome found in clusters, not persistent |
| Leaves | alternate, pinnately compound, 9-15 leaflets per leaf, leaflets are serrated, dull green in the summer green to yellowish fall color |
| Dimensions | 30 by 20 feet (HS), strong columnar to narrow oval growth form |
| Native Site | Species native to Europe to western Asia to Siberia. |
| Notes & Reference | #01-Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (Michael Dirr) |
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