Rowan - trees or shrubs of the Apple-tree tribe belonging to the Rosaceae family. There are over 100 species of mountain ash, the plant distribution area is Europe, Asia and North America.
Scarlet Rowan large
A beautiful tree or shrub with an openwork spreading broad-pyramidal crown, dense root system, reaching a height of 5-10 m. The leaves of mountain ash are dark green and oblong, consisting of 8-15 lanceolate leaves and large, scarlet, gathered in shin-shaped fruits. The flesh is intensely yellow in color, and the taste of the berries is sweet-sour and tart. It blooms with white scymphoid inflorescences, quite unpleasantly smelling. Favorable soils will be light, fertile, well-drained loamy soils. Sun-loving plant, but can grow in the shade, has frost resistance and resistance to diseases and pests. The best time to disembark is spring or autumn. 
Features: red rowan is a good spring honey plant. In winter, attracts birds.
Did you know? Red rowan is often used as a tapeworm when creating alleys, using it to plant streets and cities.
Rowan Bead
It is a medium-sized tree, reaching a height of about 3 m. In the rowan-tree of Bead, there is a rounded crown of medium thickness, of medium thickness, brown-gray shoots, light green non-parisous leaves, white flowers with large inflorescences. Rowan berries are purple and round, weighing up to 2 g with juicy dense pulp and sweet-sour taste. They contain 25% solids, 10% sugar and 3% acid. The yield of rowan busin high, begins to bear fruit in the 5th year, ripens in September. The plant is sun-loving, suitable for light, well-drained loamy soil. It has good transportability and resistance to diseases and low temperatures.
Rowan Beth
Rowan Beth - a tree of medium height with a round, sparse crown, reaching a height of 4 m and straight brown shoots with elongated, dull, dark green leaves. Fruits of rowan wefed of the correct form, round, but pointed to the base, with a stem of medium size, pink-red shade without subcutaneous points and yellow sweet-sour pulp. The berries contain 96 mg of vitamin C and 32 mg of carotene. Fruiting begins in the 4th year, the average yield of 170 kg / ha. This sort of dessert destination is frost resistant, resistant to diseases.
Rowan Daughter Kubov
Universal purpose tree, medium, with paniculate, sparse crown. The description of the mountain ash is as follows: the shoots are powerful, gray-green, the leaves of the mountain ash are dark green in color, odd-pinnate. Enters fruiting in the 5th year. Rowan berries Daughter Kubov bright orange color, weighing up to 2 g, with bright lemon pulp, tender and sweet, contains carotene and vitamin C in composition. Mature in mid-August, can be stored in a fruit storage for up to 1 month. The best soils will be loose and unblocked. 
Rowan Garnet
The result of the crossing of mountain ash and hawthorn large-fruited. The tree is about 4 m high, its life is 20-25 years. Winter-hardy, with well-ripening shoots, not prone to damage by frost and sunlight. To increase yields should be planted in place with good access to sunlight. The leaves are pinnate and oblong, the flowers are small, white, collected in large corymbose inflorescences. Garnet rowan blooms late, so the flowers are rarely damaged by frosts, most often pollinated by bees, honey. Maroon-pomegranate-colored berries, spherical, weighing up to 2 g, with a sweet-sour tart taste.
Vitamins K, P, E, pectins and carotene are found in fruits. A high-yielding variety is noted - regularly gives up to 20 kg of fruits from one tree, in young trees berries are found on fruit twigs, and in more mature ones they are on kolchatka. Cross-pollination is a very effective method to increase the yield, the best varieties will be Dessert, Beth and Sorbinka. 
Rowan Pomegranate is propagated by root suckers, arc layers, and green cuttings, which are performed during flowering. Prefers sod-weakly podzolic loamy soil, loves water, but does not tolerate excess water, can not grow in wetlands.
It is best to plant in the fall or spring before buds bloom. The root collar can be buried by 5 cm when disembarking; after planting, watering and mulching the tree trunk should be done. Top dressing with nitrogen in the spring, and phosphorus and potassium in the fall stimulates the growth and proper development of the plant. It can be affected by aphids, mites, butterfly caterpillars, and can also get sick with moniliosis, brown spotting, wilt.
Important! Jams, jams, jellies and rowan berries Garnet treat anemia and diseases of the cardiovascular system.
Mountain ash
Received I. V. Michurin as a result of the crossing of the mountain ash and the black chokeberry. Rowan Liquor height up to 5 m, with a rare spherical crown. Fruits of a tree of the big size and very dark, remind fruits of chokeberry Aronia. Juicy pulp of berries is devoid of astringency, sweet mountain ash. The tree fructifies 5 years after planting, blooms in late spring or early summer, the berries ripen in mid-autumn, the yield of the plant is quite high. Garden rowan is very frost-resistant, but there is a risk of defeat by rot. Fruiting requires a pollinator, such as the Bourka and Beth varieties. 
Ruby Rowan
Srednerosloy plant, reaches a height of 3 m, with a thick wilted crown, branches at an angle extending from the trunk, straight rounded shoots of brown color. Ruby Rowan - medium ripening, universal use. The ashberry of early autumn maturity, can be used universally. The average mass of one-dimensional, flattened, ruby-colored fruits ripening in September is 1, 3 g. High palatability and thick yellow flesh - it is juicy and sour-sweet, very piquant. Ruby rowan contains sugar, acid, vitamin C. The leaves are medium, short-pointed, light turquoise, pink flowers with a faint aroma. Resistance to low temperatures is characteristic of the variety, it is obtained after pollination of mountain ash with an ordinary mixture of pollen of different pear varieties. It is used in a dried form, for compotes. 
Rowan Fairy
Fairytale Rowan - a tree of medium height, the crown is oval and moderately spiny. The bark on the trunk of gray color and smooth texture, the shoots are straight, elongated, pubescent, studded with lentils. The maximum mass of orange-red fruits with loose fine-grained fragrant pulp is 2 g. The taste of berries is sweet-sour and astringent. The average yield of the mountain ash of the Fairy Tale is 126.9 centners per hectare. The leaves of the plant are medium, lanceolate, bright green and dull, with a flat leaf plate, jagged edge and long petiole. Fairytale Rowan - late autumn ripening, self-fruiting, cold-resistant, withstands heat and drought quite well, has an average resistance to diseases and various pests.
Important! Rowan Fairy tale helps with atherosclerosis, has a diuretic and choleretic effect, lowers blood cholesterol.
Rowan Titan
Rowan hybrid obtained by pollination of a rowan by an ordinary mixture of pollen from apple and pear. A low tree with a rounded sparse crown of medium thickness, straight brown branches and shoots. Fruits weighing about 2 g, slightly ribbed and with a straight stalk, dark cherry color with a white coating, bright yellow flesh, medium density. This beautiful plant has dark green shiny leaves and creamy white flowers. The taste is sweet-sour, slightly tart. At Titan Titan, the description will be incomplete without mentioning the high content of vitamin C and catechins. Adverse environmental factors have little effect on the mountain ash Titan, it is resistant to low temperatures, drought, disease, skoroplodna and produces a crop every year, universal in use.
Black chokeberry
Chokeberry reaches a height of 3 m, it is a highly branched shrub. Up to 7 years of age has a compact and compact form of the bush, then under the weight of the berries the bush becomes spreading. Late flowering of the plant begins 2 weeks after the blooming of simple, oval, dark green in summer and maroon leaves in autumn, a self-fruiting variety. Aronia ripens at the end of summer - early autumn and has apple-sized fruits up to 15 mm in diameter, weighing 1.3 g. The skin is black and shiny, covered with silver, the pulp is juicy and sour-sweet with astringent taste. The shoots are gray, long and slightly pubescent, ending in inflorescence. 
Did you know? Derived by Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin, a type of chokeberry with a different set of chromosomes. Half aronia, half mountain ash.The best lands for chokeberry Aronia are friable, moist and fertile. The plant does not like shade and marshy, saline soils. A distinctive feature - a very winter-hardy plant, can withstand temperatures down to -35 ° C. Reproduction occurs root suckers, lignified cuttings, dividing the bush. Fruiting begins in the 4th year after disembarkation. For proper development should be transplantation and division of the bushes.
There is another feature that helps answer the question of what kind of mountain ash and what it is. Aronia gives a lot of root and stem offspring, which allows you to extend the age of the bushes. The shoots for renewal have their own root system, they become independent in the bushes, keep the chokeberry aronia bushes young and healthy for a very long time. The plant blooms in late May and bears fruit every year.
Rowan is a universal plant, pleasing the eye with its aesthetic appearance and having a mass of beneficial properties for human health.
