Wild Service Tree
Sorbus torminalis
- Flowering period
- May–June
- Nectar
- gut
- Pollen
- mittel
The Wild Service Tree flowers in May and June in white umbel-like panicles and provides good nectar with a medium pollen value. It grows on warm, calcareous sites in open deciduous woodland and on forest margins and is rather scattered across Central Europe. Where it stands in greater numbers, it noticeably supplements the early-summer flow. As tree of the year and valuable wild fruit it is increasingly being planted again, which benefits bee forage.
Sources (3)
- Trachtpflanzen-Katalog Bienenroute: Elsbeere
- Bienenweidepflanzen für den Hausgarten, Bayerische Landesanstalt für Weinbau und Gartenbau (LWG) Veitshöchheim
- Filipiak, Walczyńska, Denisow, Petanidou, Ziółkowska (2022): Phenology and production of pollen, nectar and sugar in 1612 plant species from various environments