Sorbus or uncertain parentage, have gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit: Sorbus Sorbus is a genus of about 100–200 species of trees and shrubs in the rose family, Rosaceae. Species of "Sorbus" ("s.l.") are commonly known as whitebeam, rowan, service tree, and mountain-ash. The exact number of species is disputed depending on the circumscription of the genus, and also due to the number of apomictic microspecies, which some treat as distinct species, but others group in a smaller number of variable species. Recent treatments treat "Sorbus" in a narrower sense to include only the pinnate leaved species of
Mountain Ash East Cymru group on Rhondda Cynon Taff Council since 1996. The Plaid Cymru numbers doubled to 18 after the May 2017 election and are the official opposition on the council. Mountain Ash East Mountain Ash East is a community and coterminous electoral ward in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It primarily includes the part of the village of Mountain Ash east of the River Cynon. The community was formed in 2016 when the larger community of Mountain Ash was divided into East and West to match the ward boundaries. The Mountain Ash East community came into effect on 1 December 2016 following