{"id":15473,"date":"2023-08-10T06:40:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T06:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/kasvit\/sorbus_aria_common_whitebeam\/"},"modified":"2024-02-27T18:47:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T18:47:48","slug":"sorbusaria","status":"publish","type":"kasvit","link":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/plants\/sorbusaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorbus aria &#8211; common whitebeam"},"content":{"rendered":"<article role=\"article\" class=\"node node-type-plant node-view-mode-full\">At first sight, with the undersides of its white-felted leaves flickering in the wind, the common whitebeam doesn\u2019t much resemble the typical mountain ash. Nevertheless it is a member of the large Eurasian genus of mountain ash (<em>Sorbus<\/em>), though there are many dendrologists who would like to see the whitebeams separated completely as their own genus of <em>Aria<\/em>. Typical of all 27 whitebeams species is that the leaves are (more or less) entire.<\/p>\n<p>The common whitebeam is small to medium in size, with an attractive round to broadly egg-shaped habit. It has large (to 12 cms) leaves, the undersides white-haired, the base rounded, the tip more pointed. As the leaves break from their buds in spring they briefly resemble opening magnolia flowers. The flowers corymbs, which are also white-felted, open later in summer, when the leaves are fully open. Autumn leaf colour is yellow, the oval fruit ripening from green through yellow to orange and red.<\/p>\n<p>When raised from seed, common whitebeam is very variable, depending on origin. Popular in Europe as a street tree, many varieties have been produced, e.g. &#8216;Majestica&#8217; and &#8216; Magnifica&#8217;; the young leaves of the variety &#8216;Lutecens&#8217; is grey-felted on both upper and lower surfaces.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"keywords\">\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ryhmittely\">Lehtipuut ja -pensaat<\/li>\n<li class=\"plants\"><a href=\"\" hreflang=\"und\">Sorbus<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"plants\"><a href=\"\" hreflang=\"und\">Sorbus aria<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","alueet":[],"kasvilajit":[1095,1211],"class_list":["post-15473","kasvit","type-kasvit","status-publish","hentry","kasvilajit-deciduous_trees_and_shrubs","kasvilajit-sorbus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kasvit\/15473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kasvit"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kasvit"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"alueet","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/alueet?post=15473"},{"taxonomy":"kasvilajit","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kasvilajit?post=15473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}