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(Siebold et Zucc.) C.Koch) K

Korean mountain ash

(Micromeles alnifolia (Siebold et Zucc.)

Koehne (Syn. Sorbus alnifolia

The merchant’s daughter fell in love
with a pauper, but her father did not
want to hear about the poor groom.

He decided to save the family from
shame and went to the sorcerer. The
daughter, having learned about this,
decided to run away from home in

order to warn her beloved. On a dark
night, she hurried to the river bank
to the meeting place. A sorcerer also
appeared there, but the guy noticed

him, and in order to ward off the Deciduous tree, 7–12 m tall, with smooth
danger from the girl, the brave young dark gray bark. Petiole leaves are alternate.
man threw himself into the water. Leaf blades are simple, whole, up to 5–10 cm
When the guy was already getting out long and 3–7 cm wide, pointed, irregularly
double-serrate along the edge, with a
to the other side, the sorcerer waved wedge-shaped or rounded base. The flowers
his magic staff - lightning flashed, are actinomorphic, white, about 1.5 cm in
thunder struck, and the young man diameter, collected in a complex shield,
turned into an oak. And the girl’s have a specific smell. The fruit is apple-

slender body turned into the trunk shaped, up to 12 mm long, bluishbrownish-
of the Mountain ash, and her arms- red.
branches stretched out towards her A very rare plant for the Sakhalin
beloved. So there are two lonely trees region, growing on the northern border of
the range. Occurs in the south of Sakhalin
loving each other on opposite banks. Island (environs of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk,
In the spring, Mountain ash puts Nevelsky and Anivsky districts). Recorded
on a white outfit,and in the autumn in the southern Kuriles: Iturup and Kunashir
she sheds red tears into the water, islands. In Russia, it is distributed only in

grieving that “the river is too wide to the very south of the Primorsky Territory.
cross, too deep not to drown”, and in General area: China, Japan, Korean
no way it is possible for a mountain Peninsula.
ash to move to an oak, this is the fate

- to swing alone for centuries».

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