The rowan tree
Description
How to identify the Rowan Tree or 'Mountain' ash
(Sorbus aucuparia)
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Video Transcription
hi guys what I've got for you today is another little bit of tree identification and what we talked about today is this tree that's just behind me here which is the Rowan tree and can't quite remember what the latter name is for this but I will it'll be on the front of this video if you've seen the intro when it comes on that's really really easy to identify this tree particularly this time of year so here it's a nice wet autumn it's sort of a mid-september here and this is the time of year when it's the most useful or the main useful part that is these days but I'll talk about them in a moment so first off the leaves of this tree the pi night leaves and each this is one leaf this isn't a selection of these this is one leaf and you can see all the segments in the leaf opposite each other and each leaf has one there's two four six eight ten twelve fourteen segments on it I think occasionally you can have a few more it can have a few left but most of them will be like that so that's 14 segments to the leaf the leaves and just bring it a little bit closer for you
each leaf has this these spiky bits on the edge that's also worth looking out for and they're kind of dark green color quite glossy on one side and the other side they're more silvery green color that's the leaves pine at leas 14 seconds okay my favorite thing about the tree are the berries it's very wet okay so it grows these lovely big bunches really red berries okay now you burst the berries and on the inside they're actually orange okay those berries are brilliant packed from a Bittman see full of pectin and vitamin A I think as well same as same as carrots now you can eat them raw however a very very bitter and astringent tasting you wouldn't want to be in a lot of them raw yeah not good at all however what you can do with these these berries is you can cook them okay you can make a really nice kind of jelly to go with like gamey meat lamb rabbit pigeon stuff like that really nice with the mustard the recipe up for that you can also do stem and the juice goes really nicely and gravy again I'll put a sticker recipe up on what to do with that
that's the boat and you can get you can get literally loads of berries just off one one tree okay so there you go that's just that's best especially for my mate Dave Hale he was asking me about Rowan trees and so game I'll stick this on your Facebook page and hopefully you'll find it useful and all the uses of this tree it's honestly it's not packed full of uses to be honest but there are a couple of things you can do with it the trunks are the main trunks and branches tree usually goes about this thick sometimes think this is a really big one you can see behind me and there we go for making like bushcraft mallets and things so you get section about this long you can turn it into a mallet and the bark comes off really easy usually comes off in one go in fact one thing that I would like to try swept the train to go by and right near a train track and one thing that I would like to slow this is I'm gonna haven't got making some containers it might not work but I'm gonna give it a go and when I do give it though I will film the whole process for you know to see if it works or not the bark of the three if I can just move the camera around for you let's see here so the bark of the tree this is the this is the tree trunk here there okay it's kind of like this silvery grey color with a little orange flecks in it it's got these little almost like little stratigraphic lines in okay and this is quite an old tree it started to rot a little bit it's pulling apart and yeah it's nice wood it's very soft wood rolling and there's a bit that's broken off here actually it's quite nice for carving I'll show you that I'll show you the detail of the wood this is just just broken off here and so you can see in there it's got a nice pattern in it you can make some nice spoons and bowls and things out of the row and tree so yeah it's a nice treats a good one that's worth knowing if you're trying to get into your tree identification it's easy to recognise particularly as I said at this time of year with those big red berries on it which are edible so yeah that's their own tree for you as always thank you for watching please drop me a subscriber like drop me a comment anything you'd like to know anything else you do know that I have mentioned in this video please please do let me know thank you for watching guys okay so umm my camera died at the end of filming the
tree so I'm I've moved over to the handheld camera here and I remember the name the Latin name of it is sorbus pakya Paria and whilst I was thinking about that I'm just double checking a couple of my books it jogged my memory and written kind of jog my memory and reminding me to tell you this Rowan tree also comes by another name and it is also known as the mountain ox there's a lot of mythology and stuff surrounding this tree as well so if you check out on the blog could be a page dedicated to it and I'll chuck in some of those myths and legends about it again sorry about this slightly less decent quality filming but my camera ran out of battery and I've got to bring my spur out with me so thanks guys
About the Author
Forrester Bushcraft
Welcome to the Forrester Bushcraft youtube page. This channel is dedicated to teaching all manner of wilderness lore, whether it be primitive skills, traditional methods or modern adaptations. Here you will find all manner of information pertaining to the great outdoors. Based in the United Kingdom I explore all of the terrains and landscapes available to me. Here you will find full HD videos filmed and edited by my self showing bushcraft skills, plant ID wildlife experiences Journeys & adventures, and last but not least the odd bit of philosophy.
My aim with this channel is to help people get outdoors and experience the great wild world that we live in showing mutual understanding and respect for all of nature.
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