Hello I'd love to know what this tree is called? Just wanted to add that I don't see any thorns anywhere on it, just the leaves and then those wonderful bunches of berries. Thank you for any help.
I go with mountain ash (Sorbus sp., rose family). True ashes (Fraxinus sp., olive family) don't have those colorful fruits. Mountain ashes tend to be smallish trees. True ashes can grow trunks big enough to produce lumber -- ash is a traditional wood for tool handles and baseball bats.
This particular species should really not be planted in coastal portions of this region anymore as it frequently comes up wild in both cultivated and natural areas but is not a native tree.
Is it coming up in cold higher elevation areas? I was curious. When I was in college, on a whim, I bought this hunker of a book called Seeds of the Woody Plants of the United States. Seems it was a USDA or Forest Service book. I recall that the seed of that tree needed to be below freezing, for about 30 days straight - twice repeated. Sound familiar to anyone? I never played around with propagation though.
Thank you so much everyone, now I know it's definitely a Mountain Ash (Sorbus Aucuparia). Ron B, I respect what you're saying about it not being a native tree. Too bad though, because I can't help enjoying this particular tree even though it's growing on a neighbour's property.
