Sorbus vilmorinii (mountain slopes, roadsides, mixed forests along river banks, grasslands, bamboo thickets). "Sorbus vilmorinii" was described based on a specimen in cultivation that was an apomictic microspecies. However, almost indistinguishable specimens are diploid and frequent in the wild. Also hybrids are common in the wild. In cultivation, this plant provides a long season of interest as an elegant, compact tree which can be grown in smaller gardens. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Like all rowans the fruit can be cooked and used to make bitter jellies or marmalades. Sorbus vilmorinii Sorbus vilmorinii, the Vilmorin's rowan
Sorbus torminalis the bark on old trees. The species has sometimes been placed in its own genus, "Torminalis". Recent molecular phylogenetics confirms an earlier taxonomic opinion that the genus "Sorbus" as defined in the broad sense is not monophyletic, but the simple-leafed species traditionally included in "Sorbus" are a monophyletic group; this species would be included in a clade called "Aria" (genus "Aria" or "Sorbus" subgenus "Aria") as the species "Aria torminalis" Beck. It is a sexually reproducing diploid species that forms diploid and polyploid hybrids with members of subgenus "Aria" (whitebeams). A number of often very localised stable apomictic polyploid species